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New York Times and other outlets sue web browser Brave over alleged content scraping
TechCrunch • • business
Key Points:
- The New York Times has sued Brave, a privacy-focused browser company, alleging it scraped the outlet’s copyrighted content and distributed it to AI companies including Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI, and Cohere.
- The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Manhattan, accuses Brave of acting as a “supplier, dealer, and distributor of stolen copyrighted content” and building an index of over 30 billion web pages using an unidentified crawler.
- The suit also targets Brave’s browser feature that bypasses paywalls and its practice of blocking publishers’ ads while selling its own ads.
- Separate but similar lawsuits were filed on the same day by the Daily News, Chicago Tribune, and Orlando Sentinel.
- The New York Times seeks an injunction and damages, while Brave has not yet responded to requests for comment.
