The unauthorized harvesting of Indigenous Australian art by automated tools has led to mass-produced items like coasters and paintings being sold without attribution on platforms including Amazon and Shein. The National Association for the Visual Arts reports that these scraping systems actively strip creator identities and alter original works, causing severe cultural and financial injury. To counter these harms, experts have put forward a "Copyright Plus" framework to enforce transparency, mandate takedown procedures, and levy fees on AI companies. While the federal government has promised to protect local talent, broader domestic artists like Kylie Minogue have already experienced uncomp…
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First Nations creatives face direct economic and cultural harm from artificial intelligen…: First Nations creatives face direct economic and cultural harm from artificial intelligence models producing unauthorized commercial imitations.
Legal experts have proposed a "Copyright Plus" model requiring tech developers to reveal…: Legal experts have proposed a "Copyright Plus" model requiring tech developers to reveal training data, honor opt-outs, and pay artist levies.
The Australian federal government is actively consulting with the sector while promising…: The Australian federal government is actively consulting with the sector while promising it will not weaken existing copyright protections.
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AI is taking First Nations art and turning it into “Temu slop”, the Pitjantjatjara artist Sally Scales has said.
Scales, the chair of the National Gallery of Australia’s First Nations advisory group, said the technology is undermining the agency of First Nations artists and the authenticity of their work and represents a “a theft” of cultural knowledge.
Despite prime minister Anthony Albanese’s vow to protect Australian creatives from copyright theft, and the attorney general, Michelle Rowland, saying there are “no plans to weaken copyright protections”, AI has already been trained – without compensation –on the works of well known Australian artists including Kylie Minogue and Nick Cave.
But experts are particularly worried about the risks to Indigenous cultural and intellectual property (ICIP) and in a world where AI companies can hoover up anything that may be found online, including songs and paintings that include sacred and cultural knowledge. AI has altered work, removed names and then been sold, an act the peak body for Australian visual artists said was causing “cultural and economic harm”.
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