The 170,000-plus-member union IATSE, which represents animators, editors and cinematographers alike, is the first major Hollywood labor group to weigh in about the dismissal of Shira Perlmutter.

President Donald Trump fired the Director of the U.S. Copyright Office, Shira Perlmutter, on Sunday. Perlmutter was appointed by the former Librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden, in 2020. In the days before this most recent firing,

The Trump administration fired the United States' top copyright official over the weekend, following the dismissal of the librarian of Congress late last week.