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- Three YouTube channels have sued Apple. They claim the company secretly collected videos from the platform to train its AI models.
The channels are h3h3Productions, MrShortGame Golf, and Golfholics. They say Apple used their videos without permission, payment, or credit.
The lawsuit states Apple did more than link to the content. It claims Apple got around YouTube’s protections to download and use the videos directly. This action breaks the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The law bans getting past systems that protect copyrighted material.
The creators argue Apple made significant profits from their content to build its AI system. They received nothing in return.
The case mentions a dataset called Panda-70M. Apple researchers referred to it in a 2025 paper on video-generation AI. Panda-70M is a large index of YouTube clips organised by URLs, timestamps, and identifiers. To use the clips, someone must access and extract each one from YouTube.
The plaintiffs say this access means getting around YouTube’s safeguards. They claim each clip counts as a separate act of scraping. Their own videos appear hundreds of times in the dataset.
Apple has not explained in detail how it handled the data. Its research papers confirm that YouTube videos were used in its AI training process.
The lawsuit was filed in California federal court. It is a class action. The plaintiffs seek damages and an injunction. They act for themselves and others in the United States who face similar issues.
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