Representative Joe Morelle (D-NY),
wrote the termination was “…surely no coincidence he acted less than a day after she refused to rubber-stamp Elon Musk’s efforts to mine troves of copyrighted works to train AI models.”
Morelle linked the words “she refused to rubber-stamp” to the Part 3 report discussed above.
The remarks about Musk may refer to the billionaire’s recent endorsement of Twitter founder Jack Dorsey’s
desire to “Delete all IP law", or the Tesla and SpaceX boss’s plans to
train his own “Grok” AI on X users’ posts.
There’s another possible explanation for Perlmutter’s ousting: The Copyright Office is a department of the Library of Congress, whose leader was last week fired on grounds of “quite concerning things that she had done … in the pursuit of DEI [diversity, equity, and inclusion] and putting inappropriate books in the library for children," according to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt.
So maybe this is just the Trump administration enacting its policy on diversity without regard to the report’s possible impact on donors or Elon Musk.
