- Rep. Joe Morelle (D-N.Y.)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 lawsuits over alleged unauthorized use of copyrighted materials in their model training.
A top Democrat has called the recent firing of director of the U.S. Copyright Office, Shira Perlmutter, "a brazen, unprecedented power grab."
