New York Times sues Brave over scraping and AI distribution
The suit, filed in Manhattan federal court, names Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI and Cohere as customers who received the publisher's content.
The New York Times sued Brave on Monday in federal court in Manhattan, alleging the browser company scraped its copyrighted content and distributed it to customers, according to TechCrunch. The suit names Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI and Cohere among the customers who received that content.
The Times is seeking an injunction and damages from Brave. The complaint accuses the company of building an index of more than 30 billion web pages using an unidentified crawler that publishers could not block.
The lawsuit also targets a Brave browser feature that bypasses paywalls, as well as the company's practice of blocking publishers' ads while selling its own.
Parallel filing by three newspapers
On the same Monday, the Daily News, the Chicago Tribune and the Orlando Sentinel filed a similar lawsuit in the same court.
Brave did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The Times has previously sued OpenAI and Perplexity over similar claims. Brave, founded in 2015, has raised roughly $250 million to date, according to private-market trackers.
Quick answers
Who is named as a customer in the New York Times lawsuit against Brave?
The suit names Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI and Cohere as customers who received the content.
What is the New York Times asking for in the Brave lawsuit?
The Times seeks an injunction and damages from Brave.
Which other publishers filed a similar suit?
The Daily News, the Chicago Tribune and the Orlando Sentinel filed a similar lawsuit in the same court on the same Monday.