New York Times sues Brave over content scraping for AI companies
Original title: New York Times and other outlets sue web browser Brave over alleged content scraping
The New York Times and other outlets have sued Brave for scraping copyrighted content and distributing it to AI firms including Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI, and Cohere.
The New York Times sued Brave on Monday, alleging the browser scraped its copyrighted content and unlawfully distributed it to AI companies. Similar lawsuits were filed by the Daily News, Chicago Tribune, and Orlando Sentinel. The suits, filed in federal court in Manhattan, seek an injunction and damages. Brave has not responded.
- Lawsuits target Brave's 30 billion webpage index
- Focus on paywall bypassing feature
- AI companies named as recipients of scraped content
- Brave raised roughly $250 million
Impact: scraped copyrighted content distributed to AI companies
- Vendors
- BraveNew York Times
- Products
- Brave browser
- Organizations
- AnthropicPerplexityMistralxAICohere
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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.
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