Three YouTubers accuse Apple of illegal scraping to train its AI models

## Summary
Reuters / Reuters Three YouTube channels have banded together and filed a class action lawsuit against Apple, as first spotted by MacRumors . According to the lawsuit , the creators behind h3h3 Productions, MrShortGameGolf and Golfholics have accused Apple of violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act by scraping copyrighted videos on YouTube to train its AI models. MacRumors noted that these YouTube channels have also filed similar lawsuits against other tech companies, including Meta, Nvidia, ByteDance and Snap. Last year, Apple was also named in a separate class action lawsuit from two neuroscience professors who claimed their copyrighted works were used without permission.

## Article Content
Reuters / Reuters
Three YouTube channels have banded together and filed a class action lawsuit against Apple, as first spotted by
MacRumors
. According to the
lawsuit
, the creators behind h3h3 Productions, MrShortGameGolf and Golfholics have accused Apple of violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act by scraping copyrighted videos on YouTube to train its AI models.
While the YouTubers' videos are available to watch on the platform, the lawsuit alleged that Apple illegally circumvented the "controlled streaming architecture" that regular users are limited to. The creators claimed that Apple's video scraping was used to train its generative AI products, adding that the tech giant's "massive financial success would not have been possible without the video content created" by the YouTubers.
MacRumors
noted that these YouTube channels have also filed
similar lawsuits
against other tech companies, including Meta, Nvidia, ByteDance and Snap.
It's not the first time a company's alleged AI training methods have gotten them in legal trouble.
OpenAI and Microsoft
were both accused of using copyrighted articles from the NYTimes to train its AI chatbots. Similarly, Perplexity was recently sued by
Reddit
and
Encyclopedia Britannica
for alleged copyright and trademark infringements. Last year,
Apple
was also named in a separate class action lawsuit from two neuroscience professors who claimed their copyrighted works were used without permission. We reached out to Apple for comment and will update the story when we hear back.
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## Expert Analysis

### Merits
- The creators claimed that Apple's video scraping was used to train its generative AI products, adding that the tech giant's "massive financial success would not have been possible without the video content created" by the YouTubers.

### Areas for Consideration
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### Implications
- We reached out to Apple for comment and will update the story when we hear back.

### Expert Commentary
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