from WNYC Studios. I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Friday, May 16th.

I want to pull back for a news segment on the bigger picture of how the Trump administration is trying to defund the

arts overall. My guest for this is Brian Boucher, who writes about Art World News for the

arts news website, artnet.com. As he reports, not only is the president proposing to abolish

the national endowment for the arts, dozens of institutions have received abrupt notices that their NIA grant

applications were either denied or actual grants rescinded.

We'll name some of the names on that list.

And even beyond that, you've heard that Trump made himself the head of the Kennedy Center

for the performing arts,

but here's one that maybe you haven't heard.

Just last weekend, they fired the head of the U.S. Copyright Office.

Why? Apparently, it was a favor to artificial intelligence over the rights of artists

copyrighted material.

Yes, I just said a favor to artificial intelligence over the rights of artists copyrighted material. Yes, I just said a favor to artificial intelligence over the rights of artists copyrighted material.

Elon Musk added, I agree to someone's tweet that said,

delete all IP law.

That's delete all intellectual property law.

Brian Boucher from ArtNet.

Thanks for coming on.

Welcome to WNYC.

Hi, Brian.

Glad to be with you.

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