"The lawsuit rests on Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which prohibits bypassing technological protection measures put in place by copyright holders to restrict access to their works."
"The plaintiffs argue that YouTube's systems for protecting its video files constitute such technological protection measures and that Amazon circumvented them deliberately and at scale to extract training data."
"If the theory holds in court, it would establish that the act of downloading YouTube videos for AI training purposes constitutes a DMCA violation regardless of whether the content is publicly viewable."
Three YouTube content creators have filed a class action lawsuit against Amazon in Seattle, claiming the company used virtual machines and rotating IP addresses to scrape their videos without permission. The lawsuit invokes the anti-circumvention provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, alleging that Amazon bypassed YouTube's protections to extract data for its Nova Reel AI model. The plaintiffs, who collectively have over 2.6 million subscribers and 5,800 original videos, argue that this constitutes a violation of copyright law.
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