Trump fires top US copyright official
Source: Politico
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Trump fires top US copyright official
Democrats are alleging foul play.
Shira Perlmutter, Register of Copyrights and Director of the U.S. Copyright Office, testifies during a hearing of the United States Copyright Office, Nov. 13, 2024. Mariam Zuhaib/AP
By KATHERINE TULLY-MCMANUS
05/10/2025 08:55 PM EDT
President Donald Trump continued a firing spree at the Library of Congress on Saturday when he dismissed the top copyright official in the nation -- a position traditionally overseen by the legislative branch.
The White House contacted Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter Saturday afternoon informing her that her job leading the U.S. Copyright Office had been "terminated," according to internal Library of Congress communications obtained by POLITICO.
Federal law provides that the Register of Copyrights be appointed by and supervised by the Librarian of Congress, which is a position that requires presidential nomination and Senate confirmation. The previous Librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden, was fired Thursday by the White House with no reason provided in a two sentence email. .. Hayden was confirmed by the Senate in 2016 to serve a 10-year term. She appointed Perlmutter, who assumed her position in Oct. 2020.
Rep. Joe Morelle, the top Democrat on the House Administration Committee which oversees the Library of Congress and U.S. Copyright Office, is alleging it is "no coincidence [Trump] acted less than a day after [Perlmutter] refused to rubber-stamp Elon Musk's efforts to mine troves of copyrighted works to train AI models."
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Holy shiitake! Trump fired Shira Perlmutter, the Director of the US Copyrights Office apparently because she refused to let Elon Musk raid the place to steal author's intellectual property rights
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Apparently Musk didn't like Perlmutter's position here:
“Extending protection to material whose expressive elements are determined by a machine would undermine rather than further the constitutional goals of copyright.”
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The US Copyright Office has released its report on copyrightability and AI-generated works. The full report can be downloaded here:
www.copyright.gov/ai/Copyright...
(Short answer: only works created by humans are copyrightable.)
#writingcommunity #publishing #ai #copyright #writing #tech
Screenshot of the cover page of part 2 of the report on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence from the US Copyright Office.
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