@Primavera @winter If I had to pick a face to represent non-free software or copyright in general for a "myth of consensual whatever" meme, I'd suggest United States Copyright Office head Shira Perlmutter.
https://copyright.gov/about/leadership/
#Copyright #CopyrightOffice #ShiraPerlmutter #consensual #ProprietarySoftware
Nov 26, 2025
Via #RawStory
Supreme Court hits Trump w/ delay as prez attempts 2 fire #LegislativeOfficer
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The US #SupremeCourt declined 2 immediately permit Prez #Trump to fire #RegisterOfCopyrights #ShiraPerlmutter from her post inside the #LibraryOfCongress.
A federal appeals court ruled #ToddBlanche could not fire the Register of Copyrights without input from #Congress because the #LibrarianOfCongress & the Register of Copyrights were "legislative officers."
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to immediately permit President Donald Trump to fire Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter from her post inside the Library of Congress.Earlier this year, Trump removed Carla Hayden, the Librarian of Congress appointed by President Joe Biden, and replaced her with h...
Perlmutter Tells SCOTUS Trump is Making ‘An Inexcusable Mess’ of Library of Congress Governance – IPWatchdog.com -Patents & Intellectual Property Law
By Eileen McDermott, 7 hours ago
Perlmutter Tells SCOTUS Trump is Making ‘An Inexcusable Mess’ of Library of Congress Governance
“The question here is not whether the Register of Copyrights or the Librarian of Congress has any functions that can be characterized as ‘executive’ for constitutional purposes; it is whether Congress decided to organize the Library as an ‘Executive agency’”.
Photo from article…Two weeks after the Trump administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court to stay an interlocutory injunction issued by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, in September that allowed Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter to return to her post pending her lawsuit against President Donald Trump for allegedly illegally removing her from office, Perlmutter has responded.
In her opposition to the application for a stay, filed on Monday, Perlmutter accused the administration of making “an inexcusable mess of Congress’s plans for the governance of its Library.”
Trump’s application argued that the D.C. appellate court’s injunction represents “another case of improper judicial interference with the President’s power to remove executive officers” and that its “analysis contravenes settled precedent and misconceives the Librarian’s and Register’s legal status.” The powers of the Librarian and Register have been classified as executive by the Supreme Court, said the administration’s brief, “such as the power to issue rules implementing a federal statute, to issue orders in administrative adjudications, and even to conduct foreign relations relating to copyright issues.”
But Perlmutter argued in her opposition that “the question here is not whether the Register of Copyrights or the Librarian of Congress has any functions that can be characterized as ‘executive’ for constitutional purposes; it is whether Congress decided to organize the Library as an ‘Executive agency’—not just for purposes of the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998 (“FVRA”), 5 U.S.C. § 3345 et seq., but for all of the purposes for which the same definition of “Executive agency” is used in Title 5, 5 U.S.C. § 105.”
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#inexcusableMess #copyright #dCCircuit #donaldTrump #intellectualProperty #ipwatchdogCom #libraryOfCongress #patents #scotus #shiraPerlmutter #trump #uSCongress #uSCourtOfAppeals
Ars Technica: In a wild time for copyright law, the US Copyright Office has no leader. “In May, Copyright Register Shira Perlmutter was abruptly fired by email by the White House’s deputy director of personnel. Perlmutter is now suing the Trump administration, alleging that her firing was invalid; the government maintains that the executive branch has the authority to dismiss her. As the […]
Judge Declines To Immediately Block Trump’s Effort To Fire Register Of Copyrights
#News #Politics #DonaldTrump #ElectionLine #LibraryofCongress #ShiraPerlmutter #USCopyrightOffice
https://deadline.com/2025/05/trump-register-of-copyrights-shira-perlmutter-1236412633/
A federal judge declined to issue an order that would immediately prevent the Trump administration from firing the register of copyrights and head of the U.S. Copyright Office, Shira Perlmutter. U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly denied Perlmutter’s motion for a temporary restraining order that would have put the Trump administration’s efforts to dismiss her on […]
Writers Guild Of America East Calls For Reinstatement Of “Unlawfully Fired” Register Of Copyrights
#News #Politics #DonaldTrump #ElectionLine #RegisterofCopyrights #ShiraPerlmutter #WGAE #WritersGuildofAmericaEast
https://deadline.com/2025/05/writers-guild-of-america-east-copyright-register-firing-1236400701/
"Monday's lesson: Don't mess with librarians"
https://www.lawdork.com/p/dont-mess-with-librarians
#LibraryofCongress #Copyright #CarlaHayden #ShiraPerlmutter #resist
Copyright and Artificial Intelligence – U. S. Copyright Office – Copyright.gov
Copyright and Artificial Intelligence
Since launching an initiative in early 2023, the Copyright Office has been examining the copyright law and policy issues raised by artificial intelligence (AI), including the scope of copyright in AI-generated works and the use of copyrighted materials in AI training. After hosting public listening sessions and webinars, the Office published a notice of inquiry in the Federal Register in August 2023, which received over 10,000 comments by December 2023.
The Office is issuing a Report in several Parts analyzing the issues, which will be published as they are completed and linked below.
Report on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence
Copyright and Artificial Intelligence analyzes copyright law and policy issues raised by artificial intelligence (AI). This Report is being issued in three Parts. Part 1 was published on July 31, 2024, and addresses the topic of digital replicas. Part 2 was published on January 29, 2025, and addresses the copyrightability of outputs created using generative AI. On May 9, 2025, the Office released a pre-publication version of Part 3 in response to congressional inquiries and expressions of interest from stakeholders. A final version of Part 3 will be published in the near future, without any substantive changes expected in the analysis or conclusions.
Editor’s Note: The documents are online, but I also included them here at the end.
Read more: Copyright and Artificial Intelligence – U. S. Copyright Office – Copyright.govSource Links: Copyright and Artificial Intelligence | U.S. Copyright Office
Documents:
Part 1: Digital Replicas – https://www.copyright.gov/ai/Copyright-and-Artificial-Intelligence-Part-1-Digital-Replicas-Report.pdf
Part 2: Copyrightability – https://www.copyright.gov/ai/Copyright-and-Artificial-Intelligence-Part-2-Copyrightability-Report.pdf
Part 3: Generative AI Training (Prepublication) – https://www.copyright.gov/ai/Copyright-and-Artificial-Intelligence-Part-3-Generative-AI-Training-Report-Pre-Publication-Version.pdf
#AI #artificialIntelligence #Congress #CopyrightOffice #Firings #Report #ShiraPerlmutter #Trump #USCopyrightOffice
Chaos At The Copyright Office: Trump’s Firing Of Register Shira Perlmutter Leaves Industry Wondering About Role Of AI Report And What Happens Next
#News #Politics #AI #CopyrightOffice #DonaldTrump #ElectionLine #ElonMusk #ShiraPerlmutter
https://deadline.com/2025/05/trump-fires-register-of-copyrights-1236393946/
Donald Trump‘s abrupt firing of the head of the U.S. Copyright Office has generated confusion and doubt over his ability to terminate her, and also speculation about the role that a long-awaited report on AI may have played in his action. Shira Perlmutter, who had been register of copyrights and director of the Copyright Office […]
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