David Millette filed 3 separate lawsuits basically for alleged scraping of YouTube videos to train the AI models of 3 different companies: OpenAI, Google, and NVIDIA. At first, the lawsuits were based on state law claims only — presumably because the plaintiff did not have registrations for the copyrights to his videos at the time. Then, on October 18, Millette filed a First Amended Complaint against OpenAI, adding a copyright claim as well as a second named plaintiff Ruslana Petryazhna, another YouTube creator.
And, now, Millette has done the same thing in his other 2 lawsuits, filing First Amended Complaints with direct infringement claims in the lawsuits against Google and NVIDIA.
With the recent filing of a new DMCA CMI case, Pierce v. Photobucket, the total number of copyright lawsuits against AI companies in the United States is 38. The number is only likely to go up as other U.S. companies offer AI applications.
