New York Times and other publishers sue Brave over scraping content for AI training
What happened
On 3 November 2026, the New York Times, the New York Daily News, the Chicago Tribune, the Orlando Sentinel and other publishers sued the privacy browser company Brave Software. According to The Verge, the publishers allege that Brave scraped website content without permission and sold it to AI companies for model training, and that its browser paywall-bypass feature let users get around paywalls. TechCrunch reported the same day that the New York Times sued Brave on Monday, alleging it scraped the paper's copyrighted content and unlawfully distributed it to customers including Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI and Cohere. The case has only just entered litigation, with no response from the defendant or court ruling reported so far.
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- TechCrunch · AINew 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 content and unlawfully distributing it to its own customers, like Anthropic and Perplexity.
- The Verge · AIThe New York Times sues Brave web browser for AI scraping and bypassing paywalls
The New York Times and a group of other publications have filed lawsuits against the company that makes the Brave web browser over alleged unlawful scraping to train AI and also letting users bypass their paywalls, as reported by Reuters.
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