Trump Cans Copyright Chief After She Warns AI May Not Be ‘Fair Use’

1 sourceUpdated Jul 1, 2026

President Donald Trump fired Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter on Saturday, just a day after her office said AI developers could be infringing copyright by vacuuming up protected works to train their models…

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