The Trump administration has fired last week to the head of the United States Copyright Office. According to the Washington Post, Shira Perlmuttercopyright registrar, and director of the office in charge of them, was fired a few days ago through an email, only two days after Trump also fired the librarian of the Congress, which he appointed Perlmutter in 2020 for the position he has held so far.
Carla Hyden, first woman and first African -American person to occupy the position of greatest responsibility of the Bilbioteca of Congress, was also fired by Email. The secretary of the White House, Karoline Leavitt, attributed the dismissal to which Hayden had followed programs for diversity, equality and inclusion and that had incorporated books for children that he described as inappropriate in the library.
Perlmutter’s dismissal arrives less than a month after the office of which he was responsible published an artificial intelligence report in which the entity expressed concern about the use of copyright protected materials for the training of AI systems. Several employees of the copyright office suspect that it may be the reason for their dismissal.
The report indicates that there are «Several stages of the development of the generative AI that imply the use of copyright work so that the exclusive rights of the authors are involved. The key question in this case, as many have already agreed, is whether at first glance these acts of copyright violation can be excused as fair use«.
While Elon Musk publicly requested a few weeks ago to eliminate any law related to intellectual property, The Democratic Congressman for New York James Morelle, currently the most weight Democrat of the Supervision Committee of the Administration, has declared that it is no coincidence that Perlmutter has been fired after the United States copyright office has published the report on the aforementioned. In addition, he has described the decision of the government as «Usurpation of shameless and unprecedented power, and without any legal basis«.
Several entities have shown their rejection of Perlmutter’s dismissal. Among them, the American Federation of Musicians, whose representatives have declared that their departure «will damage the entire copyright community. I understood what we all know is true: human creativity and authorship are the basis of the copyright law«.
