WGA Demands 'Immediate Reinstatement' of U.S. Copyright Office Head After Trump's 'Unlawful' Firing

The Trump administration fired the head of the U.S. Copyright Office Shira Perlmutter just days after her office published a report critical of the use of artificial intelligence in government agencies. The Writers Guild of America East called her firing unlawful and agreed with her report, titled "Copyright and Artificial Intelligence Part 3: Generative AI Training," and its assessment that AI companies that train their systems through "unauthorized access to copyrighted materials goes beyond established fair use boundaries" and could cause harm to copyright owners. "The findings . . .