Published: 10/18/2026
Source: The Guardian — Kylie Minogue songs already used to train AI, music body warns
The International Confederation of Music Publishers says works connected to Kylie Minogue, Nick Cave, G-Flip and Hilltop Hoods have appeared in AI systems or datasets without compensation, intensifying Australia’s debate over AI-training copyright rules.
The ICMP showed Guardian Australia examples of Google Gemini reproducing lyrics associated with Australian artists and pointed to a previously reported dataset containing more than 12 million songs drawn from YouTube. These are claims and demonstrations supplied by the publishers’ organization, not a court ruling that a particular company infringed copyright.
Australia is considering whether to examine its current copyright settings while maintaining creator control and payment. No final statutory-license or commercial text-and-data-mining exception has been adopted.
Why it matters: The debate is moving from abstract policy to identifiable music and artists. Any new regime will have to answer who grants permission, how training uses are documented, what creators are paid and whether foreign works can be included.