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Copyright Office head fired after failing to bless copyright exemption for Big Tech's AI training

Rob Beschizza
May 12, 2025
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President Trump fired the head of the U.S. Copyright Office just two days after it posted a report suggesting that Big Tech's mass piracy of books, movies and other works to train AIs was copyright infringement. Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter is out; the firing is an "unprecedented power grab with no legal basis," writes o…

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