“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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    Why do people keep listening to the executive branch? They aren’t in charge of the entire government, though they are trying to act like it.

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      I mean, there was one person that didn’t in this article, and they got fired.

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        But they aren’t under executive branch pervue, the executive branch can say whatever they want and they don’t have to listen. If some guy from sales tells you that you’re fired, and you work in shipping and receiving, so you listen to them? No, you call your boss and ask who this yahoo is.

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          And then you are fired if that sales guy is actually running the show. Politics…