June 16, 2026
Amazon has urged a Seattle federal court to toss three YouTube creators' proposed Digital Millennium Copyright Act class action that accuses the e-commerce giant of scraping millions of copyright-protected videos to train its generative artificial intelligence model Nova Reel, saying the YouTubers' failure to link it to certain datasets makes their allegations "entirely speculative."
April 03, 2026
A group of YouTube creators say Amazon.com Inc., OpenAI and Apple Inc. have been scraping millions of copyrighted videos to feed, train and commercialize their text-to-video generative AI products by unlawfully circumventing the video platform's technological protection measures, in proposed class actions filed Friday in Seattle and California federal courts.