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Ted Entertainment abandons lawsuits v. OpenAI and others but Matt Fisher remains as plaintiff
Read more: Ted Entertainment abandons lawsuits v. OpenAI and others but Matt Fisher remains as plaintiffTed Entertainment, YouTube creator, has voluntarily dismissed without prejudice its lawsuit against OpenAI as it has also its lawsuits against NVIDIA, Apple, Amazon, Bytedance, and Meta. That leaves Matt Fisher as the sole plaintiff in the lawsuit. It looks like the only case Ted Entertainment has not abandoned is the one against Snap. Ted Entertainment…
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Apple loses bid to dismiss DMCA anti-circumvention of YouTube videos claim
Read more: Apple loses bid to dismiss DMCA anti-circumvention of YouTube videos claimIn Ted Entm’t v. Apple, Judge Seeborg denied Apple’s motion to dismiss the plaintiff’s DMCA claim for alleged circumvention of access controls on YouTube videos. The opinion is consistent with two other recent decisions involving Ted Entertainment: Plus, it is similar to cases involving stream ripping of music files from YouTube videos allegedly in violation…
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Judge Scott Corley finds Ted Entertainment alleged sufficient “access control” for YouTube videos to state DMCA 1201(a) claim
Read more: Judge Scott Corley finds Ted Entertainment alleged sufficient “access control” for YouTube videos to state DMCA 1201(a) claimTed Entertainment just scored a big victory in one of the many DMCA anti-circumvention cases it has filed. In Ted Entertainment v. Bytedance, Judge Scott Corley held that Ted’s First Amended Complaint sufficiently alleged that YouTube videos are protected by “access controls,” and that Bytedance circumvented them. The viewing of YouTube videos is somewhat different…
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Bytedance reply in support of dismissing Ted Entertainment’s suit
Read more: Bytedance reply in support of dismissing Ted Entertainment’s suitBytedance filed its reply to support its motion to dismiss Ted Entertainment’s DMCA claim. Excerpt: DOWNLOAD REPLY:
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Bytedance seeks to dismiss 1st amended complaint of Ted Entertainment, YouTube video creator
Read more: Bytedance seeks to dismiss 1st amended complaint of Ted Entertainment, YouTube video creatorBytedance has filed another motion to dismiss in the Ted Entertainment v. Bytedance case. The arguments are similar to the first such motion Bytedance filed to the original complaint. Excerpt:
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Motion to dismiss briefing schedule set in Ted Entertainment v. Bytedance
Read more: Motion to dismiss briefing schedule set in Ted Entertainment v. BytedanceJudge Scott Corley issued the order, by joint stipulation of the parties in Ted Entertainment v. Bytedance, setting the schedule for the briefing on motion to dismiss. The initial case management conference won’t be until October 7, 2026.
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Video creator Ted Entertainment now alleges YouTube videos have not just 1 but 5 technological protection measures
Read more: Video creator Ted Entertainment now alleges YouTube videos have not just 1 but 5 technological protection measuresAfter Bytedance moved to dismiss video maker Ted Entertainment’s complaint, Ted filed a first amended complaint adding new allegations that YouTube has not just 1 but 5 different technological protection measures that Bytedance allegedly circumvented. The original complaint generally asserted: “YouTube deploys technological protection measures (“TPMs”) designed to control access to the underlying video files…
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Bytedance seeks dismissal of Ted Entertainment’s DMCA complaint
Read more: Bytedance seeks dismissal of Ted Entertainment’s DMCA complaintBytedance filed its motion to dismiss video creator Ted Entertainment’s DMCA anti-circumvention complaint. This is one of four DMCA lawsuits Ted Entertainment filed. The others are against Meta, Snap, and NVIDIA. Excerpt: DOWNLOAD THE MOTION TO DISMISS OF BYTEDANCE