Trump administration fires top copyright official days after firing Librarian of Congress
WASHINGTON – The Trump administration launched the country’s most important copyright official, Shira Berlipreer, days after the sudden end of the Congress Library, which oversees the copyright office in the United States.
The office said in a statement on Sunday that Perlmter received an email from the White House a day before, with a notification that “your position as a record of copyright and the director of the copyright office in the United States has been immediately ended.”
On Thursday, President Donald Trump Secretary of Congress Carla HaydenThe first African -American woman and American woman is the Country of Congress Library, as part of the continuous cleansing of government officials who are seen by the president’s opposition and his agenda.
Perlmter appointed to lead the Publishing Rights Office in October 2020.
Perlmturt recently released a report that studies whether artificial intelligence companies can use copyright “to train” artificial intelligence systems and then compete in the same market as they were trained.
The report, the third part of AI’s long study, follows a review that Perlmter started in 2023 with opinions of thousands of people including artificial intelligence developers, actors and country singers.
In January, the office clarified its approach as dangers based on the “centrality of human creativity” in authored a work that calls for the protection of copyright. The office receives about half a million copyright requests annually covering millions of creative works.
“This creativity is expressed through the use of artificial intelligence systems, it continues to enjoy protection,” Permter said in January. “Expanding the scope of protection to the materials whose expressive elements are determined by a machine … will undermine the constitutional goals of constitutional rights instead of strengthening them.”
The White House did not repeat a message seeking to comment on Sunday.
Democrats rushed to fire on Berlipler.
“The end of Donald Trump to record copyright, Shira Permter, is a rude, unprecedented matter of power without any legal basis.”
Perlmturt, who has a certificate in the law, was a political manager at the Patent and Trademarks Office and a copyright and other areas of intellectual property. She previously worked in the Publishing Rights Office in the late 1990s. The left messages were not received on Sunday.
