
White House’s email to fired head of US Copyright Office: ‘Your position as the Register of Copyrights and Director at the US Copyright Office is …’
In a move that has sparked outrage among Democrats, the Donald Trump administration has abruptly terminated Shira Perlmutter, the head of the US Copyright Office. Perlmutter’s firing comes just days after the dismissal of the Librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden. The US Copyright Office handles approximately half a million copyright applications annually, covering millions of…