By Dean Ormston
Publication Date: 2026-02-23 13:00:00
Journalism is based on copyright. It is the legal basis that gives reporters, photographers and illustrators ownership of their work and allows imprints to charge for access. It underpins the entire commercial model of a publication like The Australian Financial Review.
There are now more than 107 active copyright infringement cases against AI platforms worldwide. Eighty-seven of these are in the United States, the jurisdiction whose “permissive” fair use framework is the Financial review suggested as a model from which Australia could borrow. The USA is not a copyright utopia. It is a litigation war zone.
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