GoKawiilNYT, Daily News, Tribune and Orlando Sentinel sue Brave over AI scraping, paywall bypass
The New York Times and a group of publishers including the New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune and Orlando Sentinel have filed lawsuits against Brave Software. The complaints allege Brave scraped their websites without permission, sold access to its content index to AI firms such as Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI and Cohere, and built a browser feature that lets users bypass publisher paywalls.
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The case adds Brave to a growing list of tech companies facing litigation over how AI systems are trained on copyrighted journalism, which could help define what counts as lawful scraping versus infringement. A ruling against Brave might also pressure other browsers or AI tools offering paywall-bypass features to change their practices, according to the publishers' complaint.
- NYT and three other publishers sued Brave Software over alleged copyright infringement.
- Brave allegedly sold scraped publisher content to AI firms like Anthropic, Perplexity and xAI.
- Brave's browser also offers a paywall-bypass feature the publishers say was never authorized.
Source: theverge.com — Jay Peters, 2026-11-02
Published there as: “The New York Times sues Brave web browser for AI scraping and bypassing paywalls”
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