{"id":1104,"date":"2025-05-15T12:39:53","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T12:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/elon-musk-doge-trump-maga-copyright\/"},"modified":"2025-05-15T12:39:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T12:39:53","slug":"elon-musk-doge-trump-maga-copyright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/elon-musk-doge-trump-maga-copyright\/","title":{"rendered":"There’s Apparently Some Serious Drama Brewing Between Elon Musk’s DOGE and Trump’s MAGA"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s firing of the United States’ top copyright official was seen as a boon for the Big Tech agenda \u2014 but as it turns out, the new guys are not so sensitive to the industry’s needs.<\/p>\n

As\u00a0The Verge<\/em> reports<\/a>, most everyone presumed Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and its anti-regulation stance<\/a> were to blame for the firing<\/a> of Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter.<\/p>\n

The firing came in the wake of her office releasing a preliminary report<\/a> suggesting that training AI on copyrighted data was not legally considered fair use.<\/p>\n

But as it turns out, the men replacing her \u2014 Paul Perkins, a Justice Department veteran from Trump’s first administration, and Brian Nieves, who works for the Deputy Attorney General \u2014 are not DOGE, but MAGA stalwarts who seem bent on tech regulation.<\/p>\n

Perkins, Nieves, and Todd Blanche, who was picked to lead the Library of Congress<\/a>\u00a0after the former librarian was fired alongside Perlmutter, are “there to stick it to tech,” according to one official who spoke to The Verge<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Along with now being the deputy attorney general, Blanche also served as Trump’s defense attorney during his 2024 “hush money<\/a>” criminal trial. As deputy AG, the official is also arguing on the administration’s behalf as it seeks to force Google to lay aside<\/a> 20 percent of its profits to fix issues flagged by the Justice Department.<\/p>\n

While the DOGE faction of the president’s coalition is all-in on AI and seeks its deregulation<\/a>, Republican stalwarts were actually upset with Trump and Musk for firing Perlmutter because, as some conservatives believe, AI\u00a0should<\/em> be reined in when it comes to copyrighted materials.<\/p>\n

“We don\u2019t have to steal content to compete with China. We don\u2019t have slave labor to compete with China. It\u2019s a bullshit argument,” exclaimed Trump antitrust adviser Mike Davis in an interview about the firings with The Verge<\/em>. “It\u2019s not fair use under the copyright laws to take everyone\u2019s content and have the big tech platforms monetize it. That\u2019s the opposite of fair use. That\u2019s a copyright infringement.”<\/p>\n

With the backdrop of Musk’s alleged exit from government, one thing seems to be clear: that the conservative business interests that bolstered Trump to power in 2016 and 2024 may finally be winning out over the technolibertarianism that brought Musk along for the ride.<\/p>\n

More on Muskian power plays: <\/strong>Government Furiously Trying to Undo Elon Musk’s Damage<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The post There’s Apparently Some Serious Drama Brewing Between Elon Musk’s DOGE and Trump’s MAGA<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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