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Boettcher Law at the German-Australian Business Day in Canberra

21 October 2026

The University of Canberra Business School and the German-Australian Chamber of Industry and Commerce held the German-Australian Business Day 2026 at the University of Canberra on 21 October 2026, during German Week Canberra. The theme was AI and technological innovation across business functions, and the German-Australian economic and innovation partnership.

Fabian Hoffmann introduced the Chamber and its work on its behalf, then spoke on the panel about what a business actually owns when it uses AI to make something it means to commercialise. Copyright exists because a person made something, and it gives the maker a monopoly for a time so that the work can be turned to account. That leaves out what a machine makes, and a contract can divide rights between the parties to it but cannot create one that does not exist.

The wider question he put to the panel was a policy one. If AI does more of the work while the population ages, the value it produces has to be taxed or otherwise captured, so that it still funds what work used to fund, retirement among it.

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