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Fired copyright chief sues in federal court to get job back

May 23 2025: Former register of copyrights Shira Perlmutter filed suit in federal court on May 22, challenging her removal from office and seeking reinstatement to her position at the U.S. Copyright Office.

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Chicago Sun-Times confirms AI was used to create reading list of books that don’t exist

May 21 2025: Illinois’ prominent Chicago Sun-Times newspaper has confirmed that a summer reading list, which included several recommendations for books that don’t exist, was created using artificial intelligence by a freelancer who worked with one of their content partners.

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It may be too late for rural libraries to weather the IMLS storm

May 16 2025: Beth Anderson, director of the Burnsville Public Library in West Virginia, can throw a rock from the library’s front door and just about hit the interstate. While the mountainous region has historically been sparsely settled farm and coal country, Burnsville’s proximity...

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Faith leaders denounce US book burning as hate-fuelled intimidation

May 15 2025: A group of faith leaders in Ohio denounced a recent alleged hate crime in the state, in which a man burned books belonging to a public library. The destroyed books were on Jewish, African American and LGBTQ+ history.

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Federal judge in Rhode Island orders halt to IMLS dismantling

May 14 2025: Ruling decisively in favor of 21 states’ attorneys general, Rhode Island district court judge John J. McConnell Jr. formally ordered a halt on May 13 to a presidential executive order dismantling the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and two more federal ...

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Authors guild sues NEH over grant terminations

May 13 2025: Yesterday, the Authors Guild filed a class action lawsuit against the National Endowment for the Humanities and officials within the Department of Government Efficiency, opposing the termination of tens of millions of dollars in grants that had been previously awarded ...

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Publishers prepare for battle with big tech over AI

May 12 2025: Protection of copyright has always been a top priority for the Association of American Publishers, and that point was driven home again during the organization’s annual meeting held via Zoom on May 8. With the exception of Jenna Bush Hager’s opening remarks about her ...

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Trump reportedly fires head of US copyright office after release of AI report

May 12 2025: The Trump administration reportedly fired the head of the US copyright office over the weekend – within days of the dismissed official having published a report about how the development of artificial intelligence (AI) technology could run afoul of fair use law.

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