President Donald Trump fired the chief of the U.S. Copyright Office days after the release of a landmark report that stood to hobble artificial intelligence companies’ ability to train their models on material without the creator’s permission.
Shira Perlmutter, who became director of the Copyright Office in 2020, was reportedly terminated by email. She was appointed to that role by Carla Hayden, who herself was fired by Trump as Librarian of Congress last week.
Acting Librarian of Congress Robert Newlen informed staff in an email that Perlmutter was fired by the White House on Saturday, according to The Washington Post. The termination reportedly stoked fears among employees that they could be next.
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