Two men say The newly appointed Trump administration officials tried to enter the American Copyright Office in Washington on Monday, but they left before gaining access to the building, the sources inform. Their appearance appears a few days after the White House dismissed the director From the SHIRA PERLMOTTER Copying Office, which has been working since 2020. Perlmutter was removed from her position on Saturday, the day after the agency published a report This aroused concerns about the legality in some cases of using copyrighted materials to train artificial intelligence.
The source knowing this matter says Wired that two men who tried to enter the Copyright Office showed security in the building a document stating that they were appointed by the White House for modern roles in the office. The source identified men as Brian Nieves, who claimed that he was a modern deputy librarian, and Paul Perkins, who said he was the modern director of the Copyright Bureau, as well as the registrar duties. It is not clear that men have identified themselves thoroughly.
There is an official named Brian Nieves currently employed as a deputy chief of staff at the Bureau of the Deputy Prosecutor General, and Paul Perkins is currently employed as deputy deputy prosecutor general in the Department of Justice, in accordance with their LinkedIn profile. The Department of Justice and the White House did not immediately answer questions about wired whether two officials were appointed to work in the Copyright Office.
Sources informed Wired that the Capitol police prevented men from entering the copyright office, but the law enforcement agent denied that officers escorted someone or refused to enter them.
The Copyright Office in the USA is a government agency in the Congress Library, which manages copyright law in the country. It processes applications to inventive copyright works and conducts a searching database of existing registration. Last week, Trump’s administration also released the Librarian of Congress, Carli Hayden, who was the first woman and the first black person who took this position.
The document quoted by two men also stated that the deputy prosecutor general Todda Blanche, who previously served as Trump’s personal defense lawyer, was currently the librarian of the Congress. The Department of Justice announced on Monday that Blanche would replace Hayden, who has been at work for almost a decade. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt he told journalists The fact that Hayden shooting resulted from “quite disturbing things she did in the Congress Library in Pogoń for Dei.”
The Trump administration has not yet commented on why Perlmutter has been released. Some legislators speculated that her overthrow is associated with the report on copyright and AI, which issued her office. “Donald Trump solution of the Copyright Register, Shira Perlmutter, is an insolent, unprecedented gripper of power without legal grounds”, representative of Joe Morelle, the most vital democrat in the committee who supervises the Congress Library, he said in a statement from Saturday. “It is certainly not a coincidence that he acted less than a day after she refused Elon Musk’s efforts in Elon Musk’s rubber Stamp to train AI models.”