New York Times and other outlets sue web browser Brave over alleged content scraping

The New York Times sued Brave, the privacy-focused browser company founded in 2015, in federal court in Manhattan on Monday, alleging that Brave scraped the outlet's copyrighted content and unlawfully distributed it to AI companies including Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI, and Cohere. The suit describes Brave as a "supplier, dealer, and distributor of stolen copyrighted content" and claims the company built an index of more than 30 billion webpages using an unidentified crawler that publishers could not block. Separately, the Daily News, the Chicago Tribune, and the Orlando Sentinel filed a similar lawsuit the same day. The Times, which has previously sued OpenAI and Perplexity over similar claims, also targets a Brave feature that bypasses paywalls and the company's practice of blocking publishers' ads while selling its own. The Times seeks an injunction and damages. Brave, which has raised roughly $250 million to date, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

(Source：TechCrunch)