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Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson

AI companies urged to pay up or stay out of Australia

Digital Publishers Alliance chair Tim Duggan has called on AI companies to pay for media scraping. (Lukas Coch/AAP PHOTOS)

Australia should hold fast against powerful artificial intelligence companies seeking to bend the nation's copyright laws and should not allow their bosses into parliament house if they do not pay for stolen work, the Digital Publisher Alliance says.

Alliance chair Tim Duggan issued the advice at the National Press Club in Canberra on Wednesday, while also calling for a moratorium on government advertising with foreign tech giants, and tax offsets to boost local news providers.

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