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From Breitbart: Donald Trump promised to drain the Washington, DC, swamp of its entitled, smug elites and he delivered again Sunday by firing the top U.S. copyright official.
The dismissal of Shira Perlmutter came just days after the termination of the head of the Library of Congress, which oversees the U.S. Copyright Office.
AP reports her office said in a statement Perlmutter received an email from the White House with the notification “your position as the Register of Copyrights and Director at the U.S. Copyright Office is terminated effective immediately.”
On Thursday, President Donald Trump fired Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden, the first woman to be librarian of Congress, as part of the administration’s ongoing purge of federal government workers across a range of departments, s Breitbart News reported.
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Rep. Joe Morelle (D-NY) blasted the firing, calling it a ” brazen, unprecedented power grab with no legal basis.”
Donald Trump’s termination of Register of Copyrights, Shira Perlmutter, is a brazen, unprecedented power grab with no legal basis.
It’s 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…
— Joe Morelle (@RepJoeMorelle) May 10, 2025
The American Federation of Musicians released a statement condemning the firing:
Statement on the reported Firing of Register of Copyrights Perlmutter:
Shira Perlmutter has served the American people with unrivaled expertise for decades. Her unlawful firing will gravely harm the entire copyright community. She understood what we all know to be true: human… pic.twitter.com/ZLSiUfZ2Kf— AFM (@The_AFM) May 11, 2025
The Trump administration has fired the nation’s top copyright official, Shira Perlmutter, days after abruptly terminating the head of the Library of Congress, which oversees the U.S. Copyright Office. https://t.co/qvtzSIMEhR
— Chicago Tribune (@chicagotribune) May 11, 2025
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