Summary
Ted Entertainment, Inc., Matt Fisher, and Golfholics, Inc. sued ByteDance Inc., alleging it circumvented YouTube's technological protection measures to download their copyrighted videos without permission for training its generative AI model MagicVideo.[1][3][4][5] The case invokes the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 1201(a), for anti-circumvention violations and is filed as a proposed class action in the Northern District of California (Case No. 5:25-cv-10933-VKD), with ByteDance moving to dismiss for lack of standing and failure to state a claim on March 31, 2026.[1][3][4][5] It represents one of multiple suits by these plaintiffs against AI companies for similar YouTube video scraping, targeting the use of creators' content to fuel the generative AI industry without consen
Case details
- Court
- NDCA
- Docket number
- 3:25-cv-10933
- Filed
- Dec 23, 2025
- Status
- Active
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