A man holds a flag that reads “Shame” outside the Library of Congress on May 12, 2025 in Washington, D.C. On May 8, President Donald Trump fired Carla Hayden, the head of the Library of Congress, and Shira Perlmutter, the head of the U.S. Copyright Office just days after. (Photo by Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)
The register of copyrights cast serious doubt on whether AI companies could legally train their models on copyrighted material. The White House fired her the next day.
Supporters of the web site ‘The Pirate Bay’, one of the world’s top illegal filesharing websites, demonstrate in Stockholm, on April 18, 2009. The site still enjoys name recognition more than a decade after its heyday. (FREDRIK PERSSON/AFP via Getty Images)
The U.S. Copyright Office is calling for wide-ranging reforms of an anti-piracy law that critics say restricts the "right to tinker" and puts white-hat cybersecurity researchers in…