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Maeve Bannister and Grace Crivellaro

Creatives celebrate copyright protection from AI mining

Australia's attorney-general ruled out reform allowing AI models to train for free on creative work. (Robert McGrath/AAP PHOTOS)

Artists welcome Labor's decision to rule out copyright law changes that would have allowed tech giants to mine creative works to train artificial intelligence.

The exemption, which was floated by the Productivity Commission in August, would have made it legal for AI companies to scrape content without paying the creator. 

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