New York Times and Daily News publishers sue Brave over alleged scraping of copyrighted content resold to AI firms
The New York Times sued Brave in federal court in Manhattan on 2026-11-02. It alleges Brave scraped copyrighted content and unlawfully distributed it to AI customers the suit names as Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI and Cohere. The Daily News, Chicago Tribune and Orlando Sentinel filed a similar suit the same day. The complaint calls Brave a "supplier, dealer, and distributor of stolen copyrighted content" and an AI "fence". The Times seeks an injunction and damages. Brave had not responded to a request for comment. This is a copyright and legal dispute, not a cyber intrusion, and it has no direct defender impact.
Detalhes técnicos
- The suit alleges Brave built an index of more than 30 billion webpages using an unidentified crawler, leaving publishers unable to block it.
- It also targets a Brave browser feature that bypasses paywalls.
- It challenges Brave's practice of blocking publishers' ads while selling its own.
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New York Times and Daily News publishers sue Brave over alleged scraping of copyrighted content resold to AI firms
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The New York Times sued Brave in federal court in Manhattan on 2026-11-02. It alleges Brave scraped copyrighted content and unlawfully distributed it to AI customers the suit names as Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI and Cohere. The Daily News, Chicago Tribune and Orlando Sentinel filed a similar suit the same day. The complaint calls Brave a "supplier, dealer, and distributor of stolen copyrighted content" and an AI "fence". The Times seeks an injunction and damages. Brave had not responded to a request for comment. This is a copyright and legal dispute, not a cyber intrusion, and it has no direct defender impact.
Technical Details
- The suit alleges Brave built an index of more than 30 billion webpages using an unidentified crawler, leaving publishers unable to block it.
- It also targets a Brave browser feature that bypasses paywalls.
- It challenges Brave's practice of blocking publishers' ads while selling its own.