From TechCrunch · Rebecca Bellan · · 1m 10s
Times sues Brave browser for scraping content for AI
The New York Times and other publishers allege Brave scraped their copyrighted articles and sold access to AI companies including Anthropic and Perplexity.
In brief
The New York Times and other publishers allege Brave scraped their copyrighted articles and sold access to AI companies including Anthropic and Perplexity. The New York Times sued Brave on Monday for allegedly scraping copyrighted content and distributing it to AI companies, joining similar lawsuits against OpenAI and…
Times sues Brave over scraping
The New York Times sued Brave on Monday, alleging the privacy-focused browser scraped copyrighted content and unlawfully distributed it to AI companies Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI, and Cohere.
Other publishers file similar suits
The Daily News, the Chicago Tribune, and the Orlando Sentinel filed a separate lawsuit on the same day. Both cases were brought in federal court in Manhattan.
Brave acts as fence for stolen content
The Times likens Brave to a burglar and AI fence, saying it built an index of more than thirty billion webpages using an unidentified crawler that publishers cannot block.
“Brave acts both like a burglar that misappropriates the content of publishers, and an AI 'fence' that sells stolen content to third parties.”
Suit targets paywalls and ad blocking
The lawsuit also targets Brave's feature that bypasses paywalls and its practice of blocking publishers' ads while selling its own. The Times seeks an injunction and damages.
At a glance
The New York Times sued Brave on Monday for allegedly scraping copyrighted content and distributing it to AI companies, joining similar lawsuits against OpenAI and Perplexity.
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