US EditionFiring of Top Copyright Official Raises Alarm Amid AI Debate
- On Saturday, May 11, 2025, President Trump dismissed Shira Perlmutter, who led the U.S. Copyright Office, shortly after her office published a significant report in Washington, D.C.
- The firing followed the office's prepublication report on May 9 assessing whether training AI on copyrighted works constitutes fair use, a topic sparking wide controversy.
- The report drew more than 10,000 stakeholder comments from 67 countries, concluding that many commercial uses of copyrighted content in AI training likely exceed fair use boundaries.
- Rep. Joe Morelle called the firing a "brazen, unprecedented power grab" linked to Perlmutter's refusal to approve Elon Musk's efforts to mine copyrighted works for AI training.
- The dismissals of Perlmutter and the Librarian of Congress raised concerns about political interference that could disrupt the independent regulation of AI and copyright issues.
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The Copyright Office Issues A Largely Disappointing Report On AI Training, And Once Again A Major Fair Use Analysis Inexplicably Ignores The First Amendment
As this post explains, we have issues with the third installment of the Copyright Office's report on AI. The rest of this post discusses them, but we note here that, while the report is due criticism, the criticism does not warrant or justify the firing of Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter from her duly-appointed position.…
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