June 25, 2025
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Battle Over US Copyright Office Director Heats Up

In a heated legal battle, a federal judge on Wednesday denied a request to temporarily halt the Trump administration’s efforts to remove Shira Perlmutter as the director of the US Copyright Office. US District Judge Timothy Kelly ruled that Perlmutter, appointed as Register of Copyrights in October 2020, failed to demonstrate how her removal

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Judge Declines To Immediately Block Trump’s Effort To Fire Register Of Copyrights

A federal judge declined to issue an order that would immediately prevent the Trump administration from firing the register of copyrights and head of the U.S. Copyright Office, Shira Perlmutter. U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly denied Perlmutter’s motion for a temporary restraining order, a move that would have put the Trump administration’s efforts to dismiss

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Trump has fired the director of the US Copyright Office

As first reported by , the Trump administration has fired the Register of Copyrights and US Copyright Office Director, Shira Perlmutter. The Register of Copyrights works under the Librarian of Congress — a title held most recently by Carla Hayden, who was fired earlier this week for her DEI efforts, as White House press secretary

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Trump administration fires top copyright official days after firing Librarian of Congress

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has fired the nation’s top copyright official, Shira Perlmutter, days after abruptly terminating the head of the Library of Congress, which oversees the U.S. Copyright Office. The office said in a statement Sunday that Perlmutter received an email from the White House a day earlier with the notification that

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