Entrepreneur Media v. Meta: court compels Meta to identify who approved downloading shadow-library books and torrenting them

Motion to compel granted on interrogatory 22 and in part on interrogatory 23; other motions granted in part or denied.

Dated 19 Oct 2026Source checked 19 Oct 2026Page out of reach at the last check, 22 Oct 2026Basis: stated

In the source's own words

“Rog 22 asks: “IDENTIFY each natural person who made, authorized, or approved any decision to obtain or download any Shadow Library Dataset containing Plaintiff’s Works.””

Where it was read

U.S. District Court, N.D. Cal., Doc. 874 in Kadrey v. Meta, discovery order (CourtListener RECAP copy), checked 19 Oct 2026
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Fox Corporation to Meta: A licence under which Fox provides Meta certain multimedia content for use in AI training models, not books or similar content. Disclosed in a magistrate judge's discovery order of 19 October 2026 (Kadrey v. Meta and four related suits, N.D. Cal.), which grants Fox's motion for a protective order so that Fox and Meta need not produce the unredacted agreement or its negotiation documents; the date of the agreement itself is not stated. The order does not say whether this is the same agreement as the Fox News news-and-links deal Meta announced on 5 December 2025 (held as its own record), so the two are not merged.

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