Elon Musk’s apparent power play at the Copyright Office completely backfired

What initially appeared to beryllium a powerfulness play by Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to instrumentality implicit the US Copyright Office by having Donald Trump region the officials successful complaint has present backfired successful spectacular fashion, arsenic Trump's acting replacements are known to beryllium unfriendly - and adjacent downright hostile - to the tech industry.

When Trump fired Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden past week and Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter implicit the weekend, it was seen arsenic different determination driven by the tech helping of the Republican enactment - particularly successful airy of the Copyright Office releasing a pre-publication study saying immoderate kinds of generative AI grooming would not beryllium considered just use. And erstwhile 2 men showed up astatine the Copyright Office wrong the Library of Congress carrying letters purporting to name them to acting enactment positions, the DOGE takeover appeared to beryllium complete.

But those 2 men, Paul Perkins and Brian Nieves, were not DOGE astatine all, but alternatively approved by the MAGA helping of the Trump conjugation that aims to enactment tech companies successful check.

Perkins, present the expected acting Register of Copyrights, is an 8-year seasoned of the DOJ who served successful the f …

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