By Amy Miller ( July 7, 2026, 23:19 GMT | Insight) -- Book authors accusing Salesforce of illegally using a pirated online dataset to train its artificial intelligence tools want to search documents from Chief Executive Marc Benioff and other senior executives, arguing they made strategic decisions about AI training, commercialization and copyright compliance. But Salesforce wants to keep discovery focused on engineers’ technical decisions, rather than the company’s broader corporate strategy, countering that authors are on a “fishing expedition.”Book authors accusing Salesforce of illegally using a pirated online dataset to train its artificial intelligence tools want to search documents from Chief Executive Marc Benioff and other senior executives, arguing they made strategic decisions about AI training, commercialization and copyright compliance....
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