Their appearance comes days after the White House fired the director of the copyright office, Shira Perlmutter, who had held the job since 2020. After this article was published, the Department of Justice confirmed to WIRED that Nieves and Perkins had been appointed to lead the Copyright Office. The Justice Department declined to comment about whether the two officials attempted to enter the Copyright Office on Monday. The US Copyright Office is a government agency within the Library of Congress that administers the nation's copyright laws, including processing applications to copyright creative works. Some critics of Perlmutter's firing say this means that the White House does not have the power to remove the leader of the copyright office, either.