OpenAI Seeks Dismissal of ‘Carbon Copy’ YouTube Scraping Lawsuit

A proposed class action accusing OpenAI Inc. of scraping millions of YouTube videos to train its AI products without creators’ consent should be tossed because plaintiffs copied-and-pasted arguments already rejected by a federal court, the ChatGPT makersaid.

YouTube user David Millette’s unfair competition and unjust enrichment claims are preempted by federal copyright law because they assert content reproduction rights equivalent to those covered by the Copyright Act, and YouTube videos fall within the law’s subject matter, according to a OpenAI’s Monday motion to dismiss filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of California.

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