A group of YouTube creators, including Ted Entertainment, the company behind the H3 Podcast and h3h3 Productions, filed a proposed class action lawsuit in federal court in Seattle alleging Amazon used virtual machines and rotating IP addresses to bypass YouTube’s protections and scrape millions of videos without permission to train its Nova Reel generative AI video system. The plaintiffs claim Amazon’s alleged scraping violated copyright law and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and are seeking damages and an injunction to stop the practice. The case is one of dozens testing the boundaries of AI training practices, joining high-profile suits against OpenAI and Meta as courts work to resolve whether training generative AI on copyrighted material qualifies as fair use.
