New York Times Sues Brave Over AI Scraping and Paywall Bypass for Hundreds of Publishers
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Updated · The Verge · Nov 2
New York Times Sues Brave Over AI Scraping and Paywall Bypass for Hundreds of Publishers
3 articles · Updated · The Verge · Nov 2
Summary
The New York Times and other publishers sued Brave Software, alleging the browser maker copied their content without permission and let users evade paywalls.
A complaint from the owners of the New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune and Orlando Sentinel says Brave monetized a scraped web index by selling AI companies access to real-time online content.
The suit says that content was used by AI firms to train models or answer user queries, naming Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI and Cohere among the recipients.
Publishers also accuse Brave of promoting a paywall-blocker feature covering hundreds of top publishers and of taking steps that made it harder for sites to block Brave's access.
The case adds to mounting copyright fights over whether AI and browser companies can scrape publisher content and redistribute it without consent or compensation.