In the US, a group of "YouTube" content creators has filed a class-action lawsuit against "Amazon" company.
Modern.az reports, citing the TNW platform, that the company downloaded their videos from the "YouTube" platform without permission and used them to train its artificial intelligence model, Nova Reel.
Among the complainants are the company owning the popular H3H3 Productions channel, as well as an individual golf content creator and a golf media platform. They state that Amazon used virtual machines and IP address alteration methods to circumvent YouTube's technical protection systems.
The lawsuit is primarily based on the “anti-circumvention” (circumvention of technical protection) provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). According to the complainants, downloading videos by bypassing YouTube's protection mechanisms constitutes a violation of law, even if these videos are publicly available on the platform.
One of the interesting points is that this case is not only against Amazon. The same group had previously filed similar lawsuits against Nvidia, Meta, OpenAI, and other technology giants. This further actualizes the question of “where does the data come from?” in the field of artificial intelligence.
