Entrepreneur Media files amended complaint against Meta, adding 400+ books and 140+ magazine issues

What happened

On 9 November 2026, Entrepreneur Media, LLC filed an amended complaint against Meta Platforms, Inc. in the Northern District of California (No. 3:25-cv-09579-VC, Judge Vince Chhabria), accusing Meta of copyright infringement through its AI development. The complaint alleges that, "while other companies invested millions in licensing content to train their large language models, Meta — at the direction of senior executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg — chose industrial-scale piracy" and "deliberately and willfully stole hundreds of terabytes of copyrighted works to train its LLMs, including its Llama family of models."

What the amendment adds

The amendment was expected under the parties' 27 October 2026 joint case management statement: Entrepreneur was to file by 6 November 2026, adding more than 400 additional books and more than 140 additional magazine issues identified in Meta's discovery responses (served 4 August–30 September 2026) and in plaintiffs' torrenting expert Dr David Choffnes's 2 October 2026 report, which identifies more than 400 Entrepreneur books in shadow-library collections Meta torrented.

Context

The original complaint was filed 6 November 2025, alleging Meta downloaded, reproduced and used Entrepreneur's instructional books and magazines without authorisation to train, fine-tune and deploy Llama, and that Meta's preprocessing pipeline removed copyright management information before the works entered training datasets. The claims are direct and contributory copyright infringement and violation of 17 U.S.C. § 1202(b). Trial is set for 3 May 2027. The allegations are the plaintiff's claims; no finding of infringement has been made.