Trump Admin Asks Supreme Court to Uphold Firing of Copyright Office Chief

The Trump administration on Oct. 27 asked the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the firing of the director of the U.S. Copyright Office, Shira Perlmutter. The Copyright Office, a separate department of the Library of Congress, registers copyright claims, stores information about copyright ownership, gives information to the public, and helps Congress and other government offices with copyright-related matters. The federal government’s emergency application seeks to uphold Perlmutter’s firing after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled against the government earlier this year. Perlmutter sued the Trump administration after she was fired in May, arguing the termination—communicated via email—violated federal law....