AWG welcomes recommendation from Digital Workplaces Inquiry

20 February, 2025

The Australian Writers’ Guild welcomes the recommendation from the Standing Committee on Employment, Education and Training’s Digital Transformation of Workplaces inquiry that would see developers required to prove that their AI systems have not been trained using creatives’ intellectual property.  

Recommendation 17 of the inquiry requires “developers to demonstrate that AI systems have been developed using lawfully obtained data that does not breach intellectual property or copyright law.”

The AWG and AWGACS’ submission to the inquiry urged the Government to act swiftly to regulate the use of AI in the creative industries, highlighting the widespread infringement of Australian creators' copyright that has already taken place through unauthorised inputs to generative AI.

The findings of this report follow similar recommendations from the Select Committee on Adopting Artificial Intelligence paper released in November 2024, which called on the Australian Government to “require AI developers to be transparent in their use of copyrighted works, and to license and pay for any copyrighted works used to train datasets.”

Read the AWG and AWGACS submission HERE.

Read the Standing Committee on Employment, Education and Training response HERE.