Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden, Who Oversaw National Recording Registry & Gershwin Prize, Fired by President Trump | By Paul Grein, Billboard | President Trump fired Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden on Thursday (May 8) as the White House continues to purge the federal government of those it sees as opposed to the president and his agenda.
Hayden was notified of her dismissal in a curt email from the Presidential Personnel Office.
“Carla,” the email began. “On behalf of President Donald J. Trump, I am writing to inform you that your position as the Librarian of Congress is terminated effective immediately. Thank you for your service.”
Hayden had been appointed to the post by President Obama in 2016 and had been confirmed by the Senate. She was the first woman and the first African American to serve in that post. Her 10-year term was set to expire next year.
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Go here to read more and how it might affect musicians:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/librarian-of-congress-carla-hayden-who-oversaw-national-recording-registry-gershwin-prize-fired-by-president-trump/
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Trump Fires Director of U.S. Copyright Office, Sources Say
By Scott MacFarlane, CBS News | The Trump administration has fired the head of the U.S. Copyright Office, two sources familiar with the situation confirmed to CBS News Saturday.
The firing of Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter came after Perlmutter and her office earlier this week issued part three of a lengthy report about artificial intelligence and expressed some concerns and questions about the usage of copyrighted materials by AI technology.
“It is an open question, however, how much data an AI developer needs, and the marginal effect of more data on a model’s capabilities,” the report read. “Not everyone agrees that further increases in data and test performance will necessarily lead to continued real world improvements in utility.”
CBS News has reached out to the White House for comment.
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The U.S. Copyright Office, which has a staff of approximately 450 people, is a department of the Library of Congress. It is tasked with registering copyright claims, recording copyright ownership information and administering copyright law, among other things.
Go here to read more on this firing:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-fires-director-of-u-s-copyright-office-sources-say/
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Crew Union Calls for the Reinstatement of U.S. Copyright Office Head
By Katie Kilkenny, Hollywood Reporter | A major Hollywood crew union has weighed in on the White House’s abrupt firing of U.S. Copyright Office head Shira Perlmutter on Saturday following the pre-publication of a report on AI, saying it is “deeply concerned” over the dismissal and Perlmutter should be reinstated.
IATSE, a union that represents an array of behind-the-scenes workers in film and television, from costume designers to animators to cinematographers, said the termination “does not appear to be lawful or legitimate” as Perlmutter is hired by the legislative, rather than the executive, branch.
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/crew-union-calls-for-the-reinstatement-of-u-s-copyright-office-head/
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‘Wanton destruction’: Republicans Sneak Non-Profit Killer into Their Tax Package
By Jake Johnson, Common Dreams, Alternet
House Republicans on Monday quietly revived a proposal that would grant the Trump administration broad authority to crush nonprofits it views as part of the political opposition, from environmental justice organizations to news outlets.
Fight for the Future and other advocacy groups called attention to the measure, which was buried in the final pages of the House Ways and Means Committee’s draft reconciliation bill, starting on page 380.
A markup hearing for the legislation is scheduled to take place on Tuesday at 2:30 pm ET. [No update at this time]
The proposal would empower the U.S. Treasury Department to revoke the tax-exempt status of nonprofits deemed material supporters of terrorism, with only a hollow simulacrum of due process for the accused organizations. It is already illegal for nonprofits to provide material support for terrorism.
“The House is about to hand the Trump administration the ability to strip nonprofits of their 501(c)3 status without any reason or recourse. This is a five-alarm fire for nonprofits nationwide,” said Lia Holland, campaigns and communications director at Fight for the Future. “If the text of last autumn’s H.R. 9495 is passed in the budget, any organization with goals that do not line up with MAGA can be destroyed with a wink from Trump to the Treasury.”
The measure passed the Republican-controlled House late last year with the support of more than a dozen Democrats, but it never received a vote in the Senate.
“This terribly thought-out legislation means that under the current administration, every environmental, racial justice, LGBTQ+, gender justice [emphasis added], immigration justice, and—particularly—any anti-genocide organization throughout the country may be on the chopping block,” said Holland. “If Democrats capitulate to the wanton destruction of crucial civil society institutions, they had better expect civil society to burn them to the ground for that betrayal.”
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Go here to read the rest of this [IMO, horrible] proposal:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/wanton-destruction-republicans-sneak-nonprofit-killer-into-their-tax-package/