From the Daily Beast

US President Donald Trump fired the chief of the US Copyright Office days after the release of a report that could have prevented artificial intelligence companies from training their models on copyrighted materials without the creator's permission.

“Making commercial use of vast troves of copyrighted works to produce expressive content that competes with them in existing markets, especially where this is accomplished through illegal access, goes beyond established fair use boundaries,” the agency wrote.

Rep. Joe Morelle, the top Democrat on the Committee on House Administration, speculated in a statement that “it is surely no coincidence” that Trump fired Perlmutter “less than a day after she refused to rubber-stamp Elon Musk’s efforts to mine troves of copyrighted works to train AI models.”

“Her unlawful firing will gravely harm the entire copyright community,” it said in a statement. “She understood what we all know to be true: human creativity and authorship are the foundation of copyright law—and for that, it appears, she lost her job.”