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The New York Times sues Brave, alleging it scraped its content and sold it to AI companies

The New York Times filed suit on Monday against browser company Brave, alleging it scraped its copyrighted content and distributed it to customers including Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI and Cohere. Three other newspapers filed a similar suit.

The New York Times sues Brave, alleging it scraped its content and sold it to AI companies
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The New York Times sued Brave, the privacy-focused browser company founded in 2015, in federal court in Manhattan on Monday. According to TechCrunch, the paper alleges that Brave scraped its copyrighted content and unlawfully distributed it to customers the suit names as Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI and Cohere. On the same day the Daily News, the Chicago Tribune and the Orlando Sentinel filed a similar lawsuit.

The suit describes Brave as a "supplier, dealer, and distributor of stolen copyrighted content" for AI companies. It alleges that the company built an index of more than 30 billion web pages using an unidentified crawler, leaving publishers unable to block it. The suit also targets a browser feature that bypasses paywalls, and Brave's practice of blocking publishers' ads while selling its own.

The Times seeks an injunction and damages. It is already suing OpenAI and Perplexity over similar claims. According to private-market trackers, Brave has raised about $250 million to date. It is not yet known how the company will respond.

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TechCrunch New 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. techcrunch.com

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