The New York Times Sues Browser Brave for Scraping Content and Reselling It to AI Companies
The New York Times sued privacy browser Brave on Monday, alleging that it scraped copyrighted content and sold it to AI companies including Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI, and Cohere, seeking an injunction and damages. On the same day, the New York Daily News, the Chicago Tribune, and other outlets filed similar lawsuits in a Manhattan federal court.
The New York Times Sues Browser Brave for Scraping Content and Reselling It to AI Companies
On Monday, The New York Times filed a lawsuit against the privacy-focused browser Brave, alleging that it scraped copyrighted content and sold it to AI companies such as Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI, and Cohere, seeking an injunction and damages.
On the same day, The New York Daily News, the Chicago Tribune, and other outlets also filed similar lawsuits in a Manhattan federal court. The complaints state that Brave built an index of over 30 billion web pages using an undisclosed web crawler, while also bypassing paywalls and blocking publishers' advertisements. Brave has not yet responded.
Source: TechCrunch
