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

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 one lawmaker. — Read the rest
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