<ul><li>Shira Perlmutter, the prior head of the US Copyright Office, was reportedly fired by the Trump administration via email.</li><li>US democrat representative Joe Morelle criticized the firing as a 'brazen power grab' after Perlmutter refused to approve Elon Musk's use of copyrighted works for AI training.</li><li>Perlmutter's tenure was praised for modernizing the Copyright Office and addressing the intersection of AI and intellectual property.</li><li>The debate over fair use in training AI models on copyrighted content continues, with ongoing lawsuits against AI companies like OpenAI and Meta.</li></ul>

Trump administration reportedly fires the head of the US Copyright Office as it tries to tackle AI's use of copyrighted materials

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