Books 3 has revealed thousands of pirated Australian books. In the age of AI, is copyright law still fit for purpose?
- Written by: Dilan Thampapillai, Dean of Law, University of Wollongong, University of Wollongong
Thousands of Australian books have been found on a pirated dataset of ebooks, known as Books3, used to train generative AI. Richard Flanagan, Helen Garner, Tim Winton and Tim Flannery are among the leading local authors affected – along, of course, with writers from around the world.
A search tool published by the Atlantic makes it possible...
