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“Donald Trump’s termination of Register of Copyrights, Shira Perlmutter, is a brazen, unprecedented power grab with no legal basis. It is 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.

“Register Perlmutter is a patriot, and her tenure has propelled the Copyright Office into the 21st century by comprehensively modernizing its operations and setting global standards on the intersection of AI and intellectual property.

“This action once again tramples on Congress’s Article One authority and throws a trillion-dollar industry into chaos. When will my Republican colleagues decide enough is enough?”

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[–] Horse@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

the only real authority

"who is going to stop me"

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Unmm any if the hundreds of legislators

[–] Horse@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

the law only matters if there are people willing and able to enforce it
the constitution isn't magic, i would have thought libs would have figured that out by now

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Seems extremely spineless even for them