From AI Insider · James Dargan · · 1m
New York Times Sues Brave Over AI Scraping
New York Times and publishers accuse Brave of stealing content for AI companies.
In brief
New York Times and publishers accuse Brave of stealing content for AI companies. New York Times and other publishers sued Brave for allegedly scraping copyrighted content and supplying it to AI firms like Anthropic and Perplexity. Originally reported by AI Insider.
New York Times sues Brave
The New York Times has sued Brave, the privacy-focused browser company founded in 2015, alleging it scraped the newspaper’s copyrighted content and unlawfully supplied it to AI companies including Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI and Cohere.
Other publishers join suit
The Daily News, the Chicago Tribune and the Orlando Sentinel filed a similar suit on the same day. Both cases were brought in federal court in Manhattan.
Brave accused of stealing content
The Times describes Brave as a supplier and distributor of stolen copyrighted material for AI firms, likening the company to both a burglar that takes publishers’ content and a fence that sells it on to…
In short
New York Times and other publishers sued Brave for allegedly scraping copyrighted content and supplying it to AI firms like Anthropic and Perplexity.
