October 01, 2026
Apple urged a California federal judge Thursday to toss a proposed class action brought by YouTube creators alleging it violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's anti-circumvention provisions by scraping copyrighted videos to train its AI tools, arguing there was no circumvention and any access controls fell outside the DMCA because they were "ineffective."
July 02, 2026
Apple Inc. is coming out swinging against a proposed class action brought by a group of YouTube creators accusing it of violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act by scraping millions of copyrighted videos to train large language model products, telling the California federal court that the creators are suing under the wrong part of the law.
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.