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Trump Pulls AGGRESSIVE Power Grab After Tech Billionaire Scheme Blown Open
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Donald Trump team pulls aggressive power grab move to suddenly fire Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter, who leads the US Copyright Office, suspiciously immediately after the release of the pre-publication of its opinion on the fair use status of AI training data that’s made up of copyrighted information, which directly applies to Elon Musk's creations and other tech billionaire buddies of Trump. John Iadarola and Jayar Jackson break it down on The Damage Report. Leave a comment with your thoughts below!
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Trump fires head of Copyright Office two days following report that AI training may not be fair use
"The Trump administration has reportedly fired Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter, who leads the US Copyright Office, following the office’s choice to release a pre-publication version of its opinion on the fair use status of AI training data that’s made up of copyrighted information.
Representative Joe Morelle, the ranking Democrat of the Committee on House Administration, called her firing an “unprecedented power grab with no legal basis,” linking the firing directly to her report, which he says amounted to her refusing “to rubber-stamp Elon Musk’s efforts to mine troves of copyrighted works to train AI models.”
Among the report’s conclusions is that while the fair use status of AI training “will depend on what works were used, from what source, for what purpose, and with what controls on the outputs—all of which can affect the market.”"
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