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Company filingOctober 6, 2026Entrepreneur Media, LLC v. Meta Platforms, Inc. · N.D. Cal. 3:25-cv-09579

Meta's verified answers name the executives who approved buying and scanning physical books under its "Project Vellum"

Meta's verified interrogatory responses, filed publicly as an exhibit to a joint discovery letter (Dkt. 170), answer a question about who made, authorized or approved decisions to acquire or scan physical books in connection with Project Vellum, including funding. Meta's original answer identifies Chris Cox, Nat Friedman, Aparna Ramani and Susan Li as persons who made decisions related to acquiring or scanning the books. A Sept. 4, 2026 supplement adds Alexandr Wang as a person involved in approving the effort, and a Sept. 18 supplement says Susan Li approved decisions to fund it. The letter says the parties agree this interrogatory is now resolved. The responses do not say how many books were bought, what happened to the print copies, or how the scans were used. Project Vellum is separate from the downloads of LibGen and Anna's Archive data addressed in the same responses. No court has ruled on whether the scanning was lawful.

Meta's verified interrogatory responses (Dkt. 170-1) ↗Joint discovery letter (Dkt. 170) ↗

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