Apple Sued by Three YouTube Channels

Three established YouTube channels person sued Apple, alleging that the institution violated the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) by unlawfully accessing and scraping millions of copyrighted videos from YouTube to bid its AI models.


In a people enactment suit filed successful California national tribunal past week, the owners of the YouTube channels h3h3Productions (plus H3 Podcast and H3 Podcast Highlights), MrShortGame Golf, and Golfholics alleged that Apple "deliberately circumvented" YouTube's protections against video scraping and "profited substantially" by doing so.

Apple's probe papers bespeak that immoderate of the YouTube videos uploaded by the plaintiffs were utilized to bid its AI models, the ailment alleged.

Apple's actions were "not lone unlawful, but an unconscionable onslaught connected the assemblage of contented creators whose contented is utilized to substance the multi-trillion-dollar generative AI manufacture without immoderate compensation," the suit adds.

The plaintiffs are seeking an injunction and damages individually and connected behalf of each others likewise situated successful the U.S., per the complaint.

In caller months, the aforesaid 3 YouTube channels person filed akin lawsuits against different tech giants, including Meta, Nvidia, ByteDance, and Snap.

h3h3Productions is simply a well-known YouTube transmission created by Ethan Klein and Hila Klein, and they aboriginal created the H3 Podcast. Their channels person millions of followers, portion MrShortGame Golf and Golfholics person hundreds of thousands of followers.
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