POLICY · REGULATION · #2950
New York Times sues Brave, alleges it scraped publisher content and supplied it to AI firms
The New York Times sued Brave in federal court in Manhattan, alleging the privacy-focused browser scraped its copyrighted content—building an index of over 30 billion webpages—and unlawfully distributed that content to AI companies named in the suit, including Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI, and Cohere. Separately, the Daily News, Chicago Tribune, and Orlando Sentinel filed a similar lawsuit; the Times seeks injunctive relief and damages and also targets Brave features that bypass paywalls and block publishers' ads while selling its own.
KEY POINTS
- The New York Times sued Brave in federal court in Manhattan, alleging the privacy-focused browser scraped its copyrighted content—building an index of over 30 billion webpages—and unlawfully distributed that content to AI companies named in the suit, including Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI, and Cohere.
- Separately, the Daily News, Chicago Tribune, and Orlando Sentinel filed a similar lawsuit; the Times seeks injunctive relief and damages and also targets Brave features that bypass paywalls and block publishers' ads while selling its own.
- The case targets a browser's alleged role in harvesting and supplying web content used by major AI companies, which could affect liability and data‑use practices across the AI training ecosystem.
WHY IT MATTERS
The case targets a browser's alleged role in harvesting and supplying web content used by major AI companies, which could affect liability and data‑use practices across the AI training ecosystem.