Trump sacked Copyright Office director a day after she refused to rubber-stamp Musk’s plan to train AI models, top Dem says

fortune.com/2025/05/12/donald-trump-copyright-director-ai-companies-training-elon-musk-shira-perlmutter

Rep. Joe Morelle has denounced President Trump’s removal of Shira Perlmutter as an unprecedented power grab, suggesting it was done following a report that found that AI companies sometimes breach copyright laws. Major AI firms like OpenAI, which Elon Musk cofounded, are facing ongoing…

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