Court orders Meta to name executives who authorized book piracy

In copyright lawsuits over AI training, Magistrate Judge Thomas Hixon ordered Meta to identify the decision-makers who authorized downloading pirated books from shadow libraries like Anna's Archive and LibGen. Meta had argued its datasets were managed informally with no one in authority deciding.

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