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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''''Chmura v. Snap Inc.'''' is a class action lawsuit filed on February 18, 2026 in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, alleging that Snapchat circumvented YouTube's technological protection measures to mass-download video content for AI training, violating the DMCA's anti-circumvention provisions.<ref name="copyright-feb">[https://copyrightalliance.org/copyright-stories-february-2026/ Copyright Alliance, "Copyright Stories — February 2026"]</ref><br />
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== Case Details ==<br />
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| '''Case Name''' || Chmura v. Snap Inc.<br />
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| '''Court''' || U.S. District Court, Central District of California<br />
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| '''Docket Number''' || 2:26-cv-01732<br />
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| '''Filed''' || February 18, 2026<br />
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| '''Judge''' || Judge Andre Birotte Jr.<br />
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| '''Plaintiff''' || Nicole Chmura (proposed class representative)<br />
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| '''Defendant''' || Snap Inc.<br />
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| '''Claims''' || DMCA anti-circumvention (17 U.S.C. § 1201(a))<br />
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== Allegations ==<br />
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Plaintiff Nicole Chmura alleges that Snap Inc. circumvented YouTube's technological access controls to scrape, bulk-download, and extract YouTube-hosted audiovisual works at the file level for training Snapchat's AI systems.<ref name="copyright-feb"/><br />
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Specific claims include:<br />
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* Snap used circumvention tools and services to defeat YouTube's streaming-only restrictions at scale<br />
* The company instructed employees to evade detection and scrape repeatedly for video clips<br />
* Snapchat's AI systems were trained on unlawfully accessed copyrighted content without creator permission or licenses<br />
* The circumvention was conducted deliberately and systematically to obtain commercial AI training data<ref name="copyright-feb"/><br />
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== Relief Sought ==<br />
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* Injunctive relief to cease circumvention-based access to YouTube-hosted works<br />
* Statutory damages under 17 U.S.C. § 1203<br />
* Declaratory relief<br />
* Jury trial<ref name="copyright-feb"/><br />
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== Significance ==<br />
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This case is part of a wave of DMCA anti-circumvention lawsuits filed against AI companies in early 2026, alongside similar actions against Runway AI, Meta, Nvidia, and others. It represents an expansion of AI copyright litigation beyond text-based training data into video content scraping.<ref name="copyright-feb"/><br />
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== See Also ==<br />
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* [[Businessing LLC v Runway AI Inc]]<br />
* [[Ted Entertainment v OpenAI Inc]]<br />
* [[Ted Entertainment v Apple Inc]]<br />
* [[Ted Entertainment v Amazoncom Inc]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
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[[Category:Copyright Litigation]]<br />
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