President Donald Trump has dismissed Shira Perlmutter, who runs the US rights office.
The dismissal was reported by CBS News and Politico, and apparently confirmed by a statement by representative Joe Morelle, the High Democrat on the Committee for the Administration of Chambers.
“Donald Trump’s conclusion for the copyright register, Shira Perlmutter, is a gentle, unprecedented seizure of power without legal basis,” Morelle said. “It is no doubt that it was no coincidence that he acted less than a day after she refused to make Elon Musk’s efforts to undermine the copyright protected offenses to train his models.”
Perlmutter took over the Copyright Office in 2020, during the Trump’s first administration. She was appointed by Congress Library Carla Hayden, who Trump also fired this week.
Trump alluded to the news of his truth of the social social network when he “returned” a post from lawyer Mike Davis related to the CBS News article. (Confused, Davis seemed to criticize the fire, writing, “Now technology will try to steal the copyright of the creators for his profits.”)
Regarding the way this relates to Musk (an ally of Trump) and he, Morelle was associated with a version before the publication of a report by the US rights rights issued this week that focuses on copyright and artificial intelligence. (In fact, it is actually the third part of a longer report.)
In it, the Copyright Office states that while “it is not possible to prejudice” the outcome of individual cases, there are restrictions on how many companies it can rely on “just use” as protection when training their models protected by copyright. For example, the report says research and analysis would probably be allowed.
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“But the use of trade use of large livestocks of copyright protected works to produce expressive content that compete with them in existing markets, especially when this is accomplished through illegal access, goes beyond the determined limits of fair use,” he continues.
The Copyright Office continues to suggest that government intervention “would be premature at this time”, but expresses hope that “licensing markets”, where it pays copyright holders for access to their content “must continue to develop”, adding that “alternative approaches such as a collective licensing” should be considered.
Companies, including Openai currently face a number of lawsuits by accusing them of copyright violations, and Openai has also called for the US government to codify a copyright strategy that gives companies to go through the right use.
Musk, meanwhile, is also co-founder of Openai and a competitive start, Xai (who is joining the former Twitter). He recently expressed support for the call of the founder of the Square Jack Dorsey to “delete the entire IP law”.
