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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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Ted Entertainment staves off dismissal of DMCA anti-circumvention claim related to YouTube videos in suit v. Snap
Read more: Ted Entertainment staves off dismissal of DMCA anti-circumvention claim related to YouTube videos in suit v. SnapJudge André Birotte Jr. issued a major ruling in one of the lawsuits filed by Ted Entertainment, a YouTube video producer — this one against Snap. Judge Birotte agreed with Ted Entertainment’s arguments that various technological measures related to YouTube videos operate as “access controls,” not simply copying controls. As cited by Judge Birotte’s decision, the…
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Ted Entertainment, Chmura copyright suits v. Snap now consolidated
Read more: Ted Entertainment, Chmura copyright suits v. Snap now consolidatedJudge Birotte Jr. has granted the parties’ stipulation to consolidate: (1) Ted Entertainment v. Snap and (2) Chmura v. Snap. The Court also appointed Interim Co-Lead Class Counsel:(1) Tom Kherkher of ELLZEY KHERKHER SANFORD MONTGOMERY LLP and (2) William J. Edelman of MILBERG, PLLC. DOWNLOAD THE ORDER
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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…