The Trump administration has fired Shira Perlmutter, the prior register of copyrights and director of the US Copyright Office, by email—according to reports from and .
A statement from US democrat representative Joe Morelle alleges that the termination is a and, in the representative's view, "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."
"Register Perlmutter is a patriot, and her tenure has propelled the Copyright Office into the 21st century by comprehensively modernizing its operations and setting global standards on the intersection of AI and intellectual property" says Morelle.
Morelle linked a pre-publication version of a [PDF warning] on copyright and artificial intelligence in his statement, in which the office states that there are limitations on how much AI companies can count on fair use as a defence when training models on copyrighted content.
OpenAI, co-founded by Musk, and Meta are currently facing a number of lawsuits accusing them of copyright infringement, including one involving alleging that pirated versions of their works were used to train AI language models without their permission. Meta has argued that such usage falls under .
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Perlmutter was appointed into her previous role in 2020 during the previous Trump administration by librarian of congress Carla Hayden, who Trump by bk8สล็อตฟรี email.
So, it appears that the Trump administration is in the process of clearing house. Meanwhile, the PIGSPIN เครดิตฟรี 100 argument as to whether training AI models on copyrighted works counts as fair usage continues, and probably will for some time.