Lawsuits Filed in Federal Court
The New York Times sued Brave, the privacy-focused browser company, on Monday, alleging it scraped the outlet’s copyrighted content and unlawfully distributed it to customers the suit names as Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI, and Cohere.
Separately on Monday, the Daily News, the Chicago Tribune, and the Orlando Sentinel filed a similar lawsuit. Both were brought in federal court in Manhattan.
Allegations of Content Distribution
The New York Times, which has also sued OpenAI and Perplexity over similar claims, likens Brave to a supplier, dealer, and distributor of stolen copyrighted content for AI companies.
The suit says Brave built an index of more than 30 billion web pages using an unidentified crawler, leaving publishers unable to block it.
Paywall and Ad-Blocking Claims
The suit also targets a Brave browser 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 did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
