The Trump administration fires the official copyright days after dismissal of librarians of the congress with top copyright

Washington (AP) – The Trump government has released the nation's highest copyright law Shira pearl motherDays after abrupt end The head of the congress library that monitors the US copyright office.

In a statement on Sunday, the office announced that Perlmother received an e -mail from the White House the day before, with the notification that “its position as the register of copyrights and director of the US copyright law would be immediately terminated”.

President Donald Trump fired on Thursday Congress librarian Carla Hayden, the first woman and the first African American, the librarian of the congress, as part of the government's ongoing government clean of government officials who oppose the president and his agenda.

In October 2020, Hayden called the office of copyright.

Perlmutter's office recently published a report Examination whether companies can use artificial intelligence copyrighted materials to “train” their AI systems. The report, the third part of a lengthy AI study, follows a review that began in 2023 with opinions of thousands of people, including AI developers, actors and compatriots.

In January the office made his approach clear As one that is based on the “centrality of human creativity” to create a work that justifies the protection of copyright. The office receives around half a million copyright applications a year that cover millions of creative work.

“Where this creativity is expressed by the use of AI systems, it continues to enjoy protection,” said Perlmutter in January. “Expansion of protection to material, the expressive elements of which are determined by a machine … would rather undermine the constitutional goals of the copyright.”

The White House did not give a message back on which a comment was looking for on Sunday.

The Democrats quickly shoot Perlmother's fire.

“Donald Trump's termination of copyright, Shira Perlmutter, is a brazen, unprecedented takeover without a legal basis,” said Rep. Joe Morelle von New York, the best democrat in the committee for property management.

Pearl mother, who has a degree in law, was previously a political manager of the patent and brand office and worked on copyrights and other areas of intellectual property. Before that, she also worked in the office of copyright at the end of the nineties. She has not returned any messages that were left behind on Sunday.

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Sophia Tireen, Associated Press Writer, contributed to this report from Chicago.