News Ted Entertainment Sues OpenAI Apple Amazon DMCA 2026

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On April 3, 2026, Ted Entertainment, Inc. filed a trio of class-action lawsuits in federal court against OpenAI, Apple, and Amazon, alleging violations of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) by circumventing YouTube's technological protection measures to scrape copyrighted videos for AI training.[1][2]

The Lawsuits

The cases—Ted Entertainment v. OpenAI Inc. (N.D. Cal., Case 3:26-cv-02935), Ted Entertainment v. Apple Inc. (N.D. Cal., Case 3:26-cv-02936), and Ted Entertainment v. Amazon.com, Inc. (W.D. Wash., Case 2:26-cv-01134)—were filed by plaintiffs Ted Entertainment (creator of "h3h3 Productions" and "H3 Podcast Highlights"), Matt Fisher ("MrShortGame Golf"), and Golfholics.[1][3]

Collectively, the plaintiffs operate YouTube channels with over 6 million subscribers and 4.3 billion views.[1]

Key Allegations

The plaintiffs allege defendants bypassed YouTube's technological protection measures—including streaming-only delivery, API limits, access controls, rolling ciphers, and IP detection systems—to download millions of videos at scale.[1][4]

OpenAI and Sora

The complaint against OpenAI targets its Sora text-to-video AI model.[1] Plaintiffs identified their content in multiple datasets including HD-VILA-100M (146-285 videos), HD-VG-130M (83-209 videos), and Panda-70M (155-283 videos).[1]

Apple and Panda-70M

The lawsuit against Apple targets "Apple AI Video" models allegedly trained using the Panda-70M dataset—70 million clips split from YouTube videos released by Snap in 2024.[1][5]

Amazon and Nova Reel

The suit against Amazon targets Nova Reel, Amazon's text-to-video AI model accessible via AWS Bedrock.[3][6]

Legal Theory

All three cases allege violations of 17 U.S.C. § 1201(a), the DMCA's anti-circumvention provision, which prohibits circumventing technological measures that control access to copyrighted works.[1] Plaintiffs seek statutory damages of up to $150,000 per violation, class certification, and permanent injunctions.[1]

Significance

These cases mark the seventh lawsuit filed by Ted Entertainment against AI companies, following prior actions against Meta, Nvidia, ByteDance, and Snap.[1] The litigation tests whether downloading YouTube videos for AI training—even when content is publicly viewable—violates the DMCA when TPMs are circumvented.[7]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 Piracy Monitor - YouTube publisher sues Apple, Amazon, OpenAI
  2. ↑ Tubefilter - Ted Entertainment files lawsuits
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 GeekWire - Amazon sued by YouTubers
  4. ↑ ChatGPT is Eating the World - Five alleged TPMs
  5. ↑ ClaimDepot - Apple sued for allegedly scraping YouTube videos
  6. ↑ Law360 - YouTube creators say Amazon scrapes videos to train AI
  7. ↑ The Next Web - Amazon Nova Reel YouTubers DMCA lawsuit
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