Australia’s recording industry is pushing back against calls to rewrite copyright law for artificial intelligence, arguing that music companies and AI developers are already building a licensing market without a new broad exception for model training.
In an October 13 statement, the Australian Recording Industry Association and Phonographic Performance Company of Australia said they reject claims that existing copyright law is preventing Australian creators from participating in AI. ARIA and PPCA said their evidence to Parliament identified 18 major global AI-music licensing deals, with nine more announced since that submission.
The dispute comes as distributors are tightening their own rules. BitcoinVersus.Tech recently covered Symphonic’s new requirements around licensed training data, disclosure and artist rights, showing that private platforms are already setting different standards for AI-assisted and fully generated music.
The Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence is examining, among other issues, how AI interacts with intellectual-property and copyright law and how Australian creative, cultural and media content is used to train models. Its final report is due November 30.
Licensing deals are already becoming a major part of that debate. BitcoinVersus.Tech reported that Universal Music and ElevenLabs are building a licensed AI remix platform in which participating artists can authorize new fan-created uses of music.
Other AI-music developers have also moved toward licensing. BitcoinVersus.Tech covered Suno’s shift toward licensed catalogs from Warner, BMG and Believe, another example of commercial agreements emerging alongside litigation and policy debates.
The important distinction is that ARIA and PPCA are making an industry argument, not announcing a change in Australian law. Parliament is still examining the issue. The central policy question remains whether existing licensing and enforcement mechanisms are sufficient, or whether lawmakers should create new rules for how copyrighted works may be used in AI development.
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