{"id":48505,"date":"2026-04-08T09:06:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T09:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/04\/08\/apple-sued-for-allegedly-scraping-70-million-youtube-videos\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T09:06:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T09:06:22","slug":"apple-sued-for-allegedly-scraping-70-million-youtube-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/04\/08\/apple-sued-for-allegedly-scraping-70-million-youtube-videos\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple sued for allegedly scraping 70 million YouTube videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div data-content-wrapper=\"true\">\n<div class=\"e_f\">\n<div class=\"e_6t\" style=\"max-width:1340px\"><picture class=\"e_Vg\" style=\"padding-top:56.27%;aspect-ratio:1340 \/ 754\"><source sizes=\"(min-width: 64rem) 51.25rem, 80vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Apple-iPhone-16e-showing-Apple-logo-scaled.jpg.webp 2560w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Apple-iPhone-16e-showing-Apple-logo-64w-36h.jpg.webp 64w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Apple-iPhone-16e-showing-Apple-logo-1000w-562h.jpg.webp 1000w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Apple-iPhone-16e-showing-Apple-logo-1920w-1080h.jpg.webp 1920w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Apple-iPhone-16e-showing-Apple-logo-1536w-864h.jpg.webp 1536w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Apple-iPhone-16e-showing-Apple-logo-675w-379h.jpg.webp 675w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Apple-iPhone-16e-showing-Apple-logo-300w-170h.jpg.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Apple-iPhone-16e-showing-Apple-logo-1280w-720h.jpg.webp 1280w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Apple-iPhone-16e-showing-Apple-logo-840w-472h.jpg.webp 840w\" type=\"image\/webp\"\/><\/picture>\n<div class=\"e_Rv e_7t\">\n<p>Aamir Siddiqui\/Android Authority<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-container-type=\"content\" class=\"e_1j e_e e_W\">\n<p>TL;DR<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Apple is facing a lawsuit from YouTubers over the alleged use of videos to train its AI models.<\/li>\n<li>The creators claim that Apple used their content without permission, payment, or credit.<\/li>\n<li>At the center is a dataset called Panda-70M, which indexes millions of YouTube clips for AI training.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"e_e e_W\">\n<p>Apple&#8217;s AI plans are facing a familiar challenge as manufacturers have pushed back, and now they&#8217;re taking the issue to court.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"e_e e_W\">\n<p>Three YouTube channels have sued Apple, claiming the company secretly collected videos from the platform to train its AI models <a rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2026\/04\/06\/apple-sued-by-three-youtube-channels\/\"><em>macrumors<\/em><\/a>). This case includes well-known channels like h3h3Productions and golf creators like MrShortGameGolf and Golfaholics. He says Apple used his videos without permission, payment or even basic credit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"e_e e_Ql e_Pl\" data-container-type=\"content\">\n<div class=\"e_e e_W\">\n<p><strong>Don&#8217;t want to miss the best of <em>Android Authority<\/em>?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"e_e e_An\"><picture class=\"e_En e_Fn e_Vg\" style=\"padding-top:31.51%;aspect-ratio:676 \/ 213\"><source sizes=\"9.375rem\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_light@2x.png.webp 676w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_light@2x-64w-20h.png.webp 64w\" type=\"image\/webp\"\/><img class=\"e_Wg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"9.375rem\" title=\"Google Preferred Source Badge Lite@2x\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_light@2x.png 676w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_light@2x-64w-20h.png 64w\" alt=\"Google Preferred Source Badge Lite@2x\" src=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_light@2x.png\"\/><\/picture><picture class=\"e_En e_Vg\" style=\"padding-top:31.51%;aspect-ratio:676 \/ 213\"><source sizes=\"9.375rem\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_dark@2x.png.webp 676w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_dark@2x-64w-20h.png.webp 64w\" type=\"image\/webp\"\/><img class=\"e_Wg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"9.375rem\" title=\"Google Preferred Source Badge Dark@2x\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_dark@2x.png 676w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_dark@2x-64w-20h.png 64w\" alt=\"Google Preferred Source Badge Dark@2x\" src=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_dark@2x.png\"\/><\/picture><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"e_e e_W\">\n<p> <a rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/1022659389\/Ted-Entertainment-v-Apple\">trial<\/a> Says Apple did more than just link content. It claims that Apple has got YouTube&#8217;s protection for downloading and using videos directly. The creators argue that it breaks the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which bans previous systems created to protect copyrighted material.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"e_e e_W\">\n<p>The lawsuit also says Apple made significant profits by using creators&#8217; content to build its AI systems, without returning anything back to the people who created the videos.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"e_e e_W\">\n<p>The lawsuit highlights a dataset called Panda-70M, which Apple researchers mentioned in a <a rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/machinelearning.apple.com\/research\/conditioned-video-generation\">2025 paper<\/a> On video-generation AI. Panda-70M is a large index of YouTube clips, segmented and organized by URL, timestamp, and identifiers. To use these clips, one must access and extract each clip from YouTube.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"e_e e_W\">\n<p>The plaintiffs say that accessing these clips meant bypassing YouTube&#8217;s security measures, creating a separate task of scraping each clip. They also claim that their own videos appear hundreds of times in the dataset.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"e_e e_W\">\n<p>Apple hasn&#8217;t detailed how it handled the data, but its research paper confirms that YouTube videos were used in its AI training process. At this point, the lawsuit is seeking damages and possibly an injunction.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-container-type=\"content\">\n<div class=\"e_dd e_W\">\n<p>Thank you for being a part of our community. Please read our comment policy before posting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aamir Siddiqui\/Android Authority TL;DR Apple is facing a lawsuit from YouTubers over the alleged use of videos to train its AI models. The creators claim that Apple used their content without permission, payment, or credit. At the center is a dataset called Panda-70M, which indexes millions of YouTube clips for AI training. Apple&#8217;s AI plans<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[1124,2145,375,17903,1321,8666,2963],"class_list":{"0":"post-48505","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-devotionals","8":"tag-allegedly","9":"tag-apple","10":"tag-million","11":"tag-scraping","12":"tag-sued","13":"tag-videos","14":"tag-youtube"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48507,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48505\/revisions\/48507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}