The New York Times and Major Publishers Sue Brave Software Over AI Scraping and Paywall Bypassing
A coalition of major news organizations, led by The New York Times and including publishers such as the Chicago Tribune and Orlando Sentinel, has filed a lawsuit against Brave Software. The complaint alleges that Brave unlawfully scrapes copyrighted content to populate its web index and monetizes this data by providing AI companies with real-time access for model training and user queries. Furthermore, the plaintiffs claim Brave actively facilitates the bypassing of publisher paywalls through specific browser features without consent or compensation. While news organizations argue this constitutes large-scale theft of intellectual property to power generative AI, representatives from involved AI firms have dismissed the claims as disinformation.
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