Trump has fired the director of the US Copyright Office

As archetypal reported by Politico, the Trump medication has fired the Register of Copyrights and US Copyright Office Director, Shira Perlmutter. The Register of Copyrights works nether the Librarian of Congress — a rubric held astir precocious by Carla Hayden, who was fired earlier this week for her DEI efforts, arsenic White House property caput Karoline Leavitt told The New York Times. Perlmutter's dismissal comes conscionable aft the bureau released a report that raised concerns astir definite uses of copyrighted worldly to bid generative AI. It's the 3rd successful a bid of papers published implicit the past twelvemonth analyzing copyright instrumentality arsenic it pertains to AI.

The Trump medication — peculiarly DOGE — has been pushing for broader usage of AI. In April, the White House called connected national agencies to make AI strategies and sanction Chief AI Officers that volition "serve arsenic alteration agents and AI advocates."

In a connection released aft quality of Perlmutter's firing came to light, Congressman Joe Morelle, the apical Democrat connected the Committee connected House Administration, called the determination "a brazen, unprecedented powerfulness drawback with nary ineligible basis," saying, "It is surely nary coincidence [Donald Trump] acted little than a time aft she refused to rubber-stamp Elon Musk’s efforts to excavation troves of copyrighted works to bid AI models."