President Donald Trump fired Shira Perlmutter, who leads the United States copyright office.
The dismissal was reported by CBS News and politician and apparently confirmed by a declaration by the representative Joe Morelle, the best democratic of the Committee for the administration of the Chamber.
“The termination of Donald Trump of the copyright register, Shira Perlmutter, is a brazen and unprecedented power of power without a legal basis,” said Morelle. “It is certainly not a coincidence that has acted less than a day after he refused with Elon Musk rubber print to extract a cope with copyright protected works to train artificial intelligence models.”
Perlmutter hired the copyright office in 2020, during the first administration of Trump. He was nominated by the librarian of the Carla Hayden congress, which Trump also fired this week.
Trump mentioned the news on his social network Truth Social, when he “relegated” a post by the lawyer Mike Davis who connects to the CBS News article. (Confusedly, Davis seemed to criticize fire, writing: “Now the technological brothers will try to steal the copyrights of the creators for the profits of the AI.”)
As for the way in which this is linked to Musk (an ally of Trump) and Ai, Morelle has connected to a pre-republicing version of a relationship of the Copyright Office of the United States published this week that focuses on copyright and artificial intelligence. (In fact, it is actually the third part of a longer relationship.)
In it, the copyright office states that, although “it is not possible to affect” the result of individual cases, there are limitations on how artificial intelligence companies can count on “fair use” as a defense when they train their models on copyright protected content. For example, the report states that research and analysis would probably be allowed.
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“But making a commercial use of vast beam of copyright protected works to produce expressive content that competes with them in existing markets, in particular where this is made through illegal access, goes beyond consolidated boundaries of fair use”, continues.
The Copyright Office continues that the intervention of the government “would be premature at this moment”, but expresses the hope that the “licenses of licenses” in which artificial intelligence companies pay copyright owners for access to their content “should continue to develop”, adding that “alternative approaches such as extensive collective licenses should be considered to face any market failure”.
The artificial intelligence companies, including Openai, currently face a series of legal causes that accuse them of copyright violation and Openai also asked the United States government to encode a copyright strategy that offers artificial intelligence companies through fair use.
In the meantime, Musk is both a co-founder of Openai and a competition in competition, Xai (who is blending with the former Twitter). He recently expressed support for the call of the founder of Square Jack Dorsey to “Eliminates the whole law on IP”.
