Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s firing of [Shira Perlmutter] the United States’ top copyright official was seen as a boon for the Big Tech agenda — but as it turns out, the new guys are not so sensitive to the industry’s needs.
But as it turns out, the men replacing her — Paul Perkins, a Justice Department veteran from Trump’s first administration, and Brian Nieves, who works for the Deputy Attorney General — are not DOGE, but MAGA stalwarts who seem bent on tech regulation.
While the DOGE faction of the president’s coalition is all-in on AI and seeks its deregulation, Republican stalwarts were actually upset with Trump and Musk for firing Perlmutter because, as some conservatives believe, AI should be reined in when it comes to copyrighted materials.
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.
Lambert: here: Maybe.
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