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Don't need it anymore. President decides who owns what now, supreme court will confirm it sometime next week.

The purpose of copyright has evolved from protecting creators to mass oppression.

AI is way better at mass oppression, however, and copyright is a threat to it, so it (copyright) will be dismantled.

So, this article describes the sequence of events as the Trump administration attempting to replace the librarian of congress, and Trump's named replacement saying he was replacing the Copyright Register with a Trump DOJ person.

I am not a lawyer but I thought it was pretty well established that (a) the library of congress is part of the legislature, not an executive branch office and (b) that the president can remove some people but can't install people in the other branches without confirmation (e.g. when a SCOTUS justice dies or retires, the president can't name a temporary justice).

https://www.govtrack.us/posts/503/2025-05-13_president-trump...

Before AI, copyright was a way to increase profits for the ruling class, now with AI it’s disadvantageous to keep copyright to the detriment of the petite bourgeoisie (like artists and self-employed software engineers). It’s the rule in capitalism that big capital eats small capital leading to income concentration in fewer and fewer hands.

Copyright is finally being deprecated as it should be.

I'm still waiting for an update on the final removal timeline.