Apple says public YouTube videos can be used in AI lawsuit defense

Apple is asking a federal court to dismiss the YouTuber AI training lawsuit, on the grounds that publicly available YouTube videos are lawfully accessible under both the DMCA and YouTube's Terms of Service. Apple seeks dismissal of YouTube AI training lawsuit In April 2026, a collection of YouTube channels sued Apple , claiming the company had scraped videos from YouTube to train internal AI models. The class-action lawsuit was headed up by Ted Entertainment, owners of the h3h3Productions chann