Copyright heads are rolling: Over the weekend, the current Presidential administration fired Shira Perlmutter, whom the AP calls “the nation’s top copyright official.” Why the move? Copyright boffins in the government had the temerity to argue that while some use of copyright-protected material in #Artificial Intelligence training is likely legal under fair use rules, not every instance is above-board. As a number of well-known AI model companies are Trump boosters, it’s unlikely that they enjoyed hearing that training off stolen materials isn’t legally protected. connecting dots here, but given how recently the report in question came out, you can run the odds yourself. https://apnews.com/articl..