The New York Times and a group of other publishers have filed separate copyright lawsuits against Brave, alleging that the privacy-focused browser company scraped their material and supplied it to AI firms without permission. The Times’ case, filed in federal court in Manhattan, names Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI, and Cohere as recipients of content it says Brave unlawfully distributed. The Daily News, Chicago Tribune, and Orlando Sentinel filed a similar suit the same day. The publishers frame Brave not merely as a browser but as a middleman that collects and sells copyrighted work for use by others.
The Times alleges Brave used an unidentified crawler to build an index of more than 30 billion web pages, and that publishers could not block the crawler. Its complaint also challenges Brave features and business practices that it says bypass publishers’ paywalls and block their advertisements while promoting Brave’s own ads. The Times seeks an injunction and damages, extending its broader legal campaign over the use of publishers’ work by AI companies; it has previously sued OpenAI and Perplexity. Brave, founded in 2015 and reported to have raised about $250 million, had not responded to a request for comment when the lawsuits were reported.
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