WASHINGTON - The Trump administration fired Shira Perlmutter, the top U.S. copyright official, a few days after abruptly terminated the head of the Library of Congress, who oversees U.S. copyright.

Perlmutter received an email from the White House a day ago and notified “Your position as the copyright and directors register of all rights reserved in the United States was terminated immediately,” the office said in a statement Sunday.

On Thursday, President Donald Trump fired Librarian Carla Hayden, the first woman and the first African-American to become a Librarian of the Librarian, as part of the government's ongoing purge of administration officials, considered against the president and his agenda.

Hayden appointed Perlmutter to lead the Office of Copyright in October 2020.

Perlmutter’s office recently released a report examining whether AI companies can use copyrighted materials to “train” their AI systems and then compete in the same market with their trained artificial works.

The report is the third part of a long AI study that follows the comments from Perlmutter started in 2023, including the opinions of thousands of people, including AI developers, actors and country singers.

In January, the office articulated its approach based on the “centricity of human creativity”, which shed light on in works authorized copyright protection. The office receives approximately 500,000 copyright applications each year, covering millions of creative works.

“Where it uses AI systems to express creativity, it continues to enjoy protection,” Perlmutter said in January. “Extending protection to materials whose expressiveness is determined by machines…will undermine the constitutional goal of copyright.”

The White House has not returned to seek news of comments on Sunday.

The Democrats quickly blow up Permot's shooting.

“Donald Trump terminated the copyright register and Shira Perlmutter is a rough, unprecedented power with no legal basis,” said Rep. Joe Morelle, the top Democrat of the House Executive Committee.

Perlmutter, who has a law degree, was previously the Policy Director of the Patent and Trademark Office and worked in copyright and other fields of intellectual property rights. She also worked in the Copyright Office in the late 1990s. She did not leave on Sunday news.