Anthropic and OpenAI ask Australia to ease its ban on AI training with local content

Anthropic and OpenAI have asked Australian lawmakers to reconsider rules that stop them from training AI models on the country’s creative work, Reuters reported on Tuesday, citing the companies’ submissions to a parliamentary inquiry into AI laws.

In October 2025, the Australian government stated that it would not include a text and data mining exception in its copyright legislation.

In effect, this means that AI developers must obtain permission from copyright holders to train their machines on those works, a situation that in practice prevents mostly US-based laboratories from training models in the country.

Both companies have acknowledged that decision in their submissions but are asking for some margin around it. Anthropic has acknowledged that broad copyright exceptions have been ruled out and has therefore suggested a ‘narrow form of conditional approval’ for the purpose of model training.

Also, it stated that it would be open to conditions such as...

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