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The New York Times filed a lawsuit on Monday against Brave in Manhattan federal court, accusing the privacy-oriented browser developer of scraping copyrighted articles and distributing them to artificial intelligence companies. The Daily News, the Chicago Tribune, and the Orlando Sentinel filed a similar complaint in the same court on the same day. [1][2]
The publishers allege that Brave monetized this index by selling access to AI clients—named in the Times complaint as Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI, and Cohere—so they could train their models and answer user queries. The litigation also challenges Brave for offering features that circumvent paywalls while blocking publisher ads and running its own advertising. [1][2]
The Times, which is seeking damages alongside an injunction, previously sued OpenAI and Perplexity over related content disputes. In its complaint, the news organization compared Brave to an illegal distributor and an AI fence trafficking in stolen publisher material. [1]
The New York Times is suing privacy-focused web browser company Brave for allegedly scraping the outlet’s copyrighted content and unlawfully distributing it to its own customers, like Anthropic and Perplexity.
via TechCrunch
The New York Times and a group of other publications have filed lawsuits against the company that makes the Brave web browser over alleged unlawful scraping to train AI and also letting users bypass their paywalls, as reported by Reuters. According to a complaint filed by the New York Daily News, the Chicago Tribune, and…
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