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Trump administration dismisses high-ranking copyright chief shortly after removing the Librarian of Congress

    Trump administration fires top copyright official days after firing Librarian of Congress
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    WASHINGTON – Shira Perlmutter, the leading copyright official in the nation, has been dismissed by the Trump administration. This follows the sudden removal of the head of the Library of Congress, responsible for overseeing the U.S. Copyright Office.

    On Sunday, the office released a statement noting that Perlmutter had been informed via an email from the White House dated the previous day, stating “your role as the Register of Copyrights and Director at the U.S. Copyright Office is terminated effective immediately.”

    Just before this, President Donald Trump dismissed Carla Hayden, the Librarian of Congress, who was notably the first woman and African American in the position. This move is seen as part of a broader effort by the administration to remove officials thought to be against the president’s policies.

    Hayden named Perlmutter to lead the Copyright Office in October 2020.

    Perlmutter’s office recently released a report examining whether artificial intelligence companies can use copyrighted materials to “train” their AI systems and then compete in the same market as the human-made works they were trained on.

    The report, the third part of a lengthy AI study, follows a review that Perlmutter began in 2023 with opinions from thousands of people including AI developers, actors and country singers.

    In January, the office clarified its approach as one based on the “centrality of human creativity” in authoring a work that warrants copyright protections. The office receives about half a million copyright applications per year covering millions of creative works.

    “Where that creativity is expressed through the use of AI systems, it continues to enjoy protection,” Perlmutter said in January. “Extending protection to material whose expressive elements are determined by a machine … would undermine rather than further the constitutional goals of copyright.”

    The White House didn’t return a message seeking comment Sunday.

    Democrats were quick to blast Perlmutter’s firing.

    “Donald Trump’s termination of Register of Copyrights, Shira Perlmutter, is a brazen, unprecedented power grab with no legal basis,” said Rep. Joe Morelle of New York, the top Democrat on the House Administration Committee.

    Perlmutter, who holds a law degree, was previously a policy director at the Patent and Trademark Office and worked on copyright and other areas of intellectual property. She also previously worked at the Copyright Office in the late 1990s. She did not return messages left Sunday.

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    Associated Press writer Sophia Tareen contributed to this report from Chicago.

    Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.

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