New York Times and other outlets sue web browser Brave over alleged content scraping

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The New York Times sued Brave, the 11-year-old, privacy-focused browser company, connected Monday, alleging it scraped the outlet’s copyrighted contented and unlawfully distributed it to customers the suit names arsenic Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI, and Cohere. 

Separately connected Monday, the Daily News, the Chicago Tribune, and the Orlando Sentinel filed a akin lawsuit. Both were brought successful national tribunal successful Manhattan. 

The New York Times, which has besides sued OpenAI and Perplexity implicit akin claims, likens Brave to a “supplier, dealer, and distributor of stolen copyrighted content” for AI companies.

“In this way, Brave acts some similar a burglar that misappropriates the contented of publishers, and an AI ‘fence’ that sells stolen contented to 3rd parties,” the suit reads. It says Brave built an scale of much than 30 cardinal webpages utilizing an unidentified crawler, leaving publishers incapable to artifact it. 

The suit besides targets a Brave browser diagnostic that bypasses paywalls and the company’s signifier of blocking publishers’ ads portion selling its own.

Founded successful 2015, Brave has raised astir $250 million to date, according to private-market trackers. The Times seeks an injunction and damages.

Brave did not instantly respond to a petition for comment. 

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