Ted Entertainment drops its claims in Nvidia AI-scraping suit; Fisher case continues

What happened

On October 27, 2026, Ted Entertainment, Inc. filed a notice voluntarily dismissing its own claims against Nvidia Corporation in a proposed class action in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California (Fisher v. Nvidia Corporation, No. 5:25-cv-10287, Judge Edward J. Davila). The dismissal is without prejudice under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 41(a)(1)(A)(i), and the notice says it does not stop the company from taking part in or recovering as a class member if the case succeeds. It gives no reason for the withdrawal.

What did not happen

The case itself is not over. Co-plaintiff Matt Fisher, the golf creator behind the MrShortGame channel, remains a plaintiff, and the case now proceeds under the Fisher caption. No class has been certified, no defendant has been found liable, and Nvidia disputes the claims. Nvidia's motion to dismiss the amended complaint was argued July 23, 2026, and as of October 30 the docket showed no ruling on it.

The underlying claim

The suit, filed November 26, 2025, alleges Nvidia circumvented YouTube's technological measures to bulk-download videos and used the scraped videos to train its Cosmos AI models, violating DMCA section 1201 rather than alleging traditional copyright infringement. It is one of seven near-identical proposed class actions by Ted Entertainment, Fisher and Golfholics against Nvidia, Meta, ByteDance, Snap, Apple, OpenAI and Amazon over alleged YouTube scraping for video AI models. Similar voluntary-dismissal notices also appeared on the Apple and ByteDance dockets on October 27 and the OpenAI docket on October 28, but those filings were not publicly available as of October 30, so this item covers only the Nvidia notice, whose contents are confirmed.