New York Times and other outlets sue web browser Brave over alleged content scraping
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.
TL;DR
- The New York Times is suing Brave, alleging the company scraped copyrighted content.
- Brave is accused of unlawfully distributing this content to AI customers, including Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI, and Cohere.
- The Daily News, Chicago Tribune, and Orlando Sentinel have filed similar lawsuits.
- The lawsuit claims Brave built an index of over 30 billion web pages using an unidentified crawler.
- Brave's features that bypass paywalls and block publisher ads while selling its own are also targeted.
- The Times seeks an injunction and damages from Brave.