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 and unlawfully distributing it to its own customers, like Anthropic and Perplexity.
The New York Times has filed a lawsuit against the privacy-focused web browser company Brave, claiming that the company unlawfully scraped and distributed the outlet's copyrighted content to its customers, including Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI, and Cohere. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Manhattan, alleges that Brave acted as a supplier, dealer, and distributor of stolen copyrighted content for AI companies.
The New York Times compares Brave to a burglar misappropriating publishers' content and an AI "fence" selling stolen content to third parties. The suit highlights Brave's use of an unidentified crawler to build an index of over 30 billion webpages, which the New York Times states renders publishers unable to block. Additionally, the lawsuit targets Brave's feature that bypasses paywalls and its practice of blocking publishers' ads while selling its own.
Founded in 2015, Brave has raised approximately $250 million to date. The New York Times seeks an injunction and damages. Brave did not respond to the request for comment.
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