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Who owns an AI generated song? What we can learn from the phonograph and the evolution of copyright laws
History suggests copyright adapts to technology. AI may be no exception.
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The 2026 World Cup has been a tournament where alcohol brands hoped to win influence through sponsorship
Tournament sponsors have a captive audience.
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Can a power company take your land to support a data center? It depends
Courts have long let utilities seize private property to build transmission lines. Does that hold if the power flows to a single data center?
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After 1776, the founders designed a government that accounts for ‘a degree of depravity in mankind’
After the colonists declared their independence, designing a government was next. Three of the founding generation said the new government needed to account for the flaws in human nature.
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A perfect storm of factors is driving up US produce prices, but shoppers can still save
US shoppers are seeing higher fruit and vegetable prices thanks to trade tensions, extreme weather and geopolitics, just to name a few reasons.
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Foundations can outlive their charitable missions – and that’s a problem
The missions the foundations’ original donors champion during their lifetimes can become outdated after they’ve died.
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Has the World Cup been a soft power failure for the US?
A string of controversies look set to turn the tournament into a lesson in how soft power can fail.
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Grattan on Friday: the zeitgeist doesn’t suit Angus Taylor but he could do more to help himself
As he surveys the degraded and demoralised Liberal Party he presides over, Angus Taylor has major problems.
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‘Race was used as a weapon’ – Fiji coup frontman urged to reveal backers
By Margot Staunton of RNZ Pacific Mahendra Chaudhry — a former Fiji prime minister removed from power and held hostage during the 2000 coup — wants George Speight to name those behind the racist takeover. The 84-year-old Labour Party leader, who became Fiji’s first prime minister of Indian heritage in 1999, made the comment after
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Australian companies to face fines and criminal action if they fail to prevent modern slavery
The changes come just weeks after the US threatened new tariffs of up to 12.5% on 60 countries – including Australia – for inaction on slave labour.
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Bird flu has reached New Zealand – what this means and what comes next
The confirmation of the bird flu virus in a brown skua appears to be a single detection. Ongoing surveillance will be essential to detect any further cases.
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This rare Australian wattle is on the brink of extinction: new research
Four experts explain how we can protect the rare – and increasingly at risk – spidery wattle.