Apple Defends Scraping YouTube Videos For AI Training In Copyright Case
Apple is pushing back against a class-action lawsuit from several YouTube creators who claim the company unlawfully scraped their videos to help train AI models. The case is another entry in the fast-growing legal pileup over generative AI training data, where tech giants keep arguing that public web content is fair game, while creators increasingly ask who gave them permission to take it in the first place.
The lawsuit was filed in April in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California by Ted Entertainment, Matt Fisher, and Golfholics, the owners behind h3h3Productions, MrShortGame Golf, and Golfholics. The creators allege that Apple bypassed YouTube’s anti-scraping protections to access and download copyrighted videos at scale. Their complaint frames the alleged scraping as part of a larger AI land grab, one where creator-made content gets fed into powerful commercial systems without payment, licensing, or much in the way of...
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