Trump dismissed the director of the copyright office one day after refusing to make Musk's plan to form models of AI, says the Haut Dem said

• Representative Joe Morelle denounced the withdrawal of President Trump From Shira Perlmutter as an unprecedented takeover, suggesting that this was done following a report which revealed that the societies of AI sometimes break the laws on copyright. Large IA companies like Openai, which Musk has co -founded, faces current prosecution on allegedly unauthorized use of material protected by copyright in their model training.

A high -level democrat called the recent dismissal of the director of the American copyright office, Shira Perlmutter, “a cheeky and unprecedented takeover”.

In a press release, representative Joe Morelle said: “Donald Trump's termination on the copyright register, Shira Perlmutter, is a cheeky and unprecedented takeover without legal basis. It is surely not a coincidence that he acted less than a day after refusing to observe the rubber Elon Musk to exploit work of tromes to form models of AI. “.

“Register Perlmutter is a patriot, and its mandate propelled the copyright office in the 21st century by modernizing its operations in depth and establishing global standards on the intersection of AI and intellectual property,” he said in the press release, adding the violent action the article in Congress and Risks and risks throwing a brillion industry.

In the press release, Morelle underlined a draft newly out of the American copyright office – partly three of a wider series – focused on the intersection of intellectual property and AI.

The document warns that AI companies should not assume that “equitable use” automatically covers their training on the material protected by copyright. However, this suggests that academic research and critical examination are authorized.

The report did not require government intervention, but it noted that mass commercial use of works protected by copyright – in particular via unauthorized access – may exceed the limits of fair use.

The report indicates that “making the commercial use of large work protected by copyright to produce expressive content that rivals them in the existing markets, in particular when accomplished thanks to illegal access, goes beyond the borders established by fair use”.

Perlmutter has been playing this role since October 2020, during the first Trump administration, and advised Congress on copyright policy.

In an article on Facebook during the weekend, the US Federation of Musicians Union said This dismissal of Perlmutter “will seriously harm the whole copyright community”.

The representatives of the White House did not immediately respond to a request for comments from Fortune.

Copyright problems of the IA company

Copyright problems have long been a thorn in the side of the main AI companies, including Openai. The company is currently fighting on several proceedings which accused him of copyright violation during the training of AI models.

In December 2023, The New York Times Pursued Openai and Microsoft, accusing the Chatpt training company on its articles without authorization and alleging that the models reproduce large parts of its content.

Earlier that year, Getty Images brought an action against AI stability – the company behind stable dissemination – ingested more than 12 million protected and metadata photographs to build their IA image generation tools.

Recently, several technological companies and leaders in the industry have prompted the Trump administration to consider releasing the constraints of intellectual property for data training.

In its recent “AI action plan”, Openai urged the US government to codify “fair use” protections for the development of AI, calling for a copyright strategy that protects the “ability of American AI models to learn material protected by copyright”.

“America has so many AI startups, attracts so much investments and has done so many research on the large part because the doctrine of fair use promotes the development of AI,” wrote Openai.

Musk, who directs the company of AI behind Grok, also supported a more loose approach to intellectual property.

In an article on X last month, Musk launched its weight behind a declaration by Jack Dorsey, the co-founder of Twitter (now X), who says: “Delete the whole IP law.” In an answer, Musk said: “I agree.”

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