--- title: ABC and SBS want AI companies to pay for Australian news description: Australia's public broadcasters ABC and SBS are urging Parliament's Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence to extend the country's news bargaining... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/abc-and-sbs-want-ai-companies-to-pay-for-australian-news-g1txa7ffi twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: ABC and SBS want AI companies to pay for Australian news | daily.dev og:description: Australia's public broadcasters ABC and SBS are urging Parliament's Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence to extend the country's news bargaining... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/abc-and-sbs-want-ai-companies-to-pay-for-australian-news-g1txa7ffi og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/g1txa7ffi.png og:image:alt: ABC and SBS want AI companies to pay for Australian news og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # ABC and SBS want AI companies to pay for Australian news **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 3 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Australia's public broadcasters ABC and SBS are urging Parliament's Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence to extend the country's news bargaining incentive to AI companies, pushing them to strike commercial deals with media outlets. The ABC wants AI firms held to the same copyright, defamation and privacy rules as publishers, calling the current system anti-competitive. SBS rejected Anthropic's proposal to let copyright holders opt out of AI training via robots.txt files, arguing such mechanisms are routinely ignored or bypassed and that the burden should fall on AI companies rather than rights holders. Anthropic, which has ruled out a blanket text-and-data-mining exception, says it plans billions in Australian data center investment while warning of AI risks to national security and infrastructure. Anthropic and OpenAI executives will testify before the committee in Sydney next week, though CEOs Sam Altman and Dario Amodei will skip a separate Senate inquiry. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What is Anthropic's proposed opt-out mechanism for AI training on copyrighted content in Australia? Anthropic proposed a narrow form of conditional approval for model training, under which copyright holders could block AI crawlers using robots.txt files that tell bots which pages they may not visit. Anthropic says it remains open to supporting Australian creators, though SBS has argued robots.txt is routinely ignored or bypassed and puts unfair monitoring burden on rights holders. _Those tracking AI copyright policy fights can follow ongoing coverage of Anthropic's Australia proposal on daily.dev._ ### Does Australia's news bargaining incentive currently apply to AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI? No, the news bargaining incentive currently applies to platforms such as Facebook, Google and TikTok, not to AI companies. The ABC and SBS are pushing Parliament's Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence to extend the incentive to cover AI firms, arguing unequal treatment is accelerating cannibalisation of the Australian news industry. _Developers building AI products that ingest news content can track this policy shift via daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Anthropic and OpenAI ask Australia to ease its ban on AI training with local content](https://daily.dev/posts/anthropic-and-openai-ask-australia-to-ease-its-ban-on-ai-training-with-local-content-7rqe6vm78) · The Next Web · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Australia AI copyright fight: creators vs datacentres](https://daily.dev/posts/australia-ai-copyright-fight-creators-vs-datacentres-onjvyag48) · The Next Web · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [UK campaigners who beat AI copyright plan warn Australia](https://daily.dev/posts/uk-campaigners-who-beat-ai-copyright-plan-warn-australia-abufuny0d) · The Next Web · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [No one has a good plan for how AI companies should work with the government](https://daily.dev/posts/no-one-has-a-good-plan-for-how-ai-companies-should-work-with-the-government-nkajqoze1) · TechCrunch · 0 upvotes · 1 comments --- Tags: [#openai](https://daily.dev/tags/openai), [#anthropic](https://daily.dev/tags/anthropic) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/abc-and-sbs-want-ai-companies-to-pay-for-australian-news-g1txa7ffi) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"ABC and SBS want AI companies to pay for Australian news","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/abc-and-sbs-want-ai-companies-to-pay-for-australian-news-g1txa7ffi","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/abc-and-sbs-want-ai-companies-to-pay-for-australian-news-g1txa7ffi"},"datePublished":"2026-10-01T16:11:42.650Z","dateModified":"2026-10-01T16:14:53.877Z","description":"Australia's public broadcasters ABC and SBS are urging Parliament's Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence to extend the country's news bargaining...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/ef25300ce3b418108f546d0da251ab2c?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/ef25300ce3b418108f546d0da251ab2c?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"The Next Web","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"The Next Web","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/tnw","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/tnw"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/abc-and-sbs-want-ai-companies-to-pay-for-australian-news-g1txa7ffi","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"openai,anthropic","timeRequired":"PT3M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The Next Web","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/tnw"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"ABC and SBS want AI companies to pay for Australian news"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/abc-and-sbs-want-ai-companies-to-pay-for-australian-news-g1txa7ffi#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"What is Anthropic's proposed opt-out mechanism for AI training on copyrighted content in Australia?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Anthropic proposed a narrow form of conditional approval for model training, under which copyright holders could block AI crawlers using robots.txt files that tell bots which pages they may not visit. 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