The New York Times and Multiple News Outlets File Lawsuit Against Brave Over Alleged Content Scraping
The New York Times, joined by the Daily News, Chicago Tribune, and Orlando Sentinel, has filed a federal lawsuit in Manhattan against web browser company Brave. The publishers allege that Brave unlawfully scraped copyrighted content to build an index of over 30 billion webpages and acted as a distributor for AI companies including Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI, and Cohere. The lawsuit further accuses Brave of utilizing features that bypass publisher paywalls and blocking traditional advertisements in favor of its own proprietary ad systems. The plaintiffs are seeking an injunction and financial damages, characterizing the browser's actions as both misappropriation of content and the unauthorized distribution of copyrighted material to third-party AI developers.