On Friday, the US Copyright Office released a draft of a report finding that AI companies breached fair use laws while training AI. The next day, the agency's head, Shira Perlmutter, was fired — and the alarm bells are blaring.

Rep. Joe Morelle has denounced President Trump’s removal of Shira Perlmutter as an unprecedented power grab, suggesting it followed a report that found that AI companies sometimes breach copyright law

The Trump administration reportedly fired the country's top copyright official, Shira Perlmutter, on Saturday, shortly after her office released the pre-publication version of a report that raised flags about training artificial intelligence models using copyrighted material.

Today’s “Take” covers Sean Combs' trial, Pres. Trump’s Mideast trip, Shira Perlmutter’s firing, Atlanta as top city to start a career.

What initially appeared to be a power play by Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to take over the US Copyright Office by having Donald Trump remove the officials in charge has now backfired in spectacular fashion, as Trump’s acting replacements are known to be unfriendly — and even downright hostile — to the tech industry.