ByteDance Must Face YouTubers’ AI Training Suit over Alleged YouTube Scraping

ByteDance Can't Shake YouTubers' AI Video Copyright Suit

A California federal judge refused Friday to throw out copyright litigation alleging TikTok owner ByteDance Inc. illegally scraped millions of YouTube videos to train its text-to-video AI products, finding that the content creators plausibly allege they've been harmed and that ByteDance circumvented at least some of YouTube's technological protections.

ByteDance must face YouTubers’ AI training suit over alleged YouTube scraping

A California federal judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit accusing ByteDance Inc. of circumventing YouTube’s technological protections to obtain videos allegedly used to train its generative AI systems