The Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGSC) and composer Antony Partos will launch their “Human Made” campaign at the APRA AMCOS Screen Music Awards in Brisbane on October 28. Composers, musicians and industry representatives plan to wear record-shaped badges bearing the copyright symbol to oppose AI training on creative work without permission and payment. Partos, a co-founder of Sonar Music and chair of the Guild’s Industrial Relations Committee, says composers are already being asked to recreate AI-generated tracks so productions can claim human authorship. He argues that creators should be able to choose whether their music enters AI training datasets and receive compensation when they participate.
The campaign follows the Guild’s October 20 AI policy, which calls for advance consent for each training use, ongoing compensation reaching composers, and disclosure of training material. It also proposes a “Human Made Music” mark supported by a public register and asks broadcasters and platforms to identify AI-generated music where audiences hear it. The Guild permits members to use AI as an assistance tool but says they should disclose generated musical material to producers and must not present machine-generated music as their own composition. These are the Guild’s policy demands and professional expectations, rather than newly enacted legal requirements.
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