Meta ordered to name execs who authorized pirating books for AI training
Ars Technica AI · rss · 2026-10-21
In copyright lawsuits by authors including Richard Kadrey and Sarah Silverman plus publisher Entrepreneur Media, Meta has spent weeks blaming staff for torrenting books from shadow libraries like Anna's Archive and LibGen. Magistrate Judge Thomas Hixon ruled Meta must identify key decision-makers who authorized the piracy. Meta had argued its early dataset efforts used an "informal approach" where "nobody with authority" made decisions — a filing that could now expose a wider range of supervisors and executives who greenlit the practice.
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