Award-winning Australian recording artists are imploring the Albanese government to reject a proposal to water down local copyright laws to feed large language models.

Paul Dempsey, best known as the lead singer of rock group Something for Kate, Holly Rankin (Jack River), Dan McNamee (Dan Mac) and Adam Briggs descended on Parliament House on Tuesday to call for creatives' intellectual property to be protected.

"The Productivity Commission has suggested that our Copyright Act presents some sort of barrier or obstacle to AI investment in Australia," Dempsey told reporters after appearing at a Senate inquiry hearing.

"To introduce a text and data mining exemption to copyright would gut creative industries in Australia."

He said the claim that copyright laws imposed "too much red tape" on

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