When multiple forces act on an object, its direction of motion is determined by the net force, which is the vector sum of all individual forces. When this happens within our federal government, we call it “interesting times.”
Not unlike other areas of the United States federal government of late, the U.S. Copyright Office has been thrown into turmoil following a stunning sequence of events this past week. As reported in multiple news outlets:
- On Thursday, May 8, 2025, President Donald Trump fired Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden, the first woman and the first African American to be librarian of Congress.[i] The Library of Congress is the larger federal agency within which the U.S. Copyright Office resides.
In a recent article examining international trademark, copyright and related issues, we started with a focus on the place humor holds as a possible defense. To understand the roots of the penchant for humor to act as a bulwark of humanity’s way of defending itself, consider this story:
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