The Response to the Dismissal
As you can imagine, the response to this firing has not been very positive, with many pointing out that it’s a clear conflict of interests.
“Donald Trump’s termination of Register of Copyrights, Shira Perlmutter, is a brazen, unprecedented power grab with no legal basis. It is surely no coincidence he acted less than a day after she refused to rubber-stamp Elon Musk’s efforts to mine troves of copyrighted works to train AI models.” – Congressman Joe Morelle
The dismissal is particularly notable, given that it came just a few days after the Trump administration fired the Librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden, who oversees the US copyright office.
