President Donald Trump has shot Shira Perlmutter, who is leading the US Copyright Office.
The firing was reported by New CBS and Politicaland seemingly confirmed by A statement by representative Joe MorelleThe leading Democrat in the House Administration Committee.
“The termination of Donald Trump’s copyright registry, Shira Perlmutter, is an unstable, unprecedented abundance of power without a legal basis,” Morelle said. “It is definitely no coincidence that has acted less than one day after refusing to rubber-saffron Elon Musk of efforts to extract the troves of copyright-protected projects to train AI models.”
Perlmutter took over the copyright office in 2020, during the first Trump administration. Was appointed by the librarian of Congress Carla Hayden, who Trump also shot this week also.
Trump reported the news about his social truth truth when he was “inverted” A post by Mike Davis Plower Link to CBS News article. (The confusion, Davis seemed to criticize the firing, writing: “Now technology bros is going to try to steal the creators’ copyright for AI profits.”)
As for how this is associated with Musk (an ally of Trump) and AI, Morelle is connected to A pre-publication of a US Copyright Office Report It was released this week that focuses on intellectual property rights and artificial intelligence. (In fact, it is actually the third part of a larger exposure.)
In this, the copyright office says that while it is not possible to prepare “the outcome of individual cases, there are restrictions on how much AI companies can calculate in” fair use “as defense when they train their models in copyright -protected content. For example, the report says.
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“But the commercial use of huge violations of copyright -protected projects to produce expressive content that competes with them in existing markets, especially when it is achieved through illegal access, goes beyond the established limits of fair use,” he continues.
The Copyright Office continues to indicate that government intervention “will be premature right now”, but it hopes that the “licensing markets” should be examined, where AI companies pay copyright holders for access to their content “should continue to” continue ” be considered to face any market failure. “
The AI companies, including Openai, are currently facing some lawsuits that accuse them of copyright violations, and Openai has also asked the US government to cope with a copyright strategy that gives AI Leeway companies through fair use.
Musk, meanwhile, is also a co -founder of Openai and a competitive start, XAI (merged with the former Twitter). He recently expressed his support for the call of the square founder Jack Dorsey to “delete all IP laws”.
