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NYT, publishers sue Brave browser for AI scraping and paywall bypass

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The New York Times, along with other publications like the Chicago Tribune and Orlando Sentinel, has filed a lawsuit against Brave Software. The lawsuit alleges that Brave unlawfully scraped copyrighted content from these publishers to train AI models and bypass paywalls. Brave is accused of monetizing this scraped data by providing AI companies, including Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI, and Cohere, with paid access to its "Brave Index" for training or direct content retrieval. AI

IMPACT This lawsuit highlights growing legal challenges around data scraping for AI training and could impact how AI companies access and use web content.

RANK_REASON Lawsuit filed against a browser company for alleged AI scraping and paywall circumvention.

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NYT, publishers sue Brave browser for AI scraping and paywall bypass

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  1. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    📰 The New York Times sues Brave Web Browser for AI scraping and bypassing Paywalls. The New York Times and a group of other publications have filed lawsuits aga

    📰 The New York Times sues Brave Web Browser for AI scraping and bypassing Paywalls. The New York Times and a group of other publications have filed lawsuits against the company that makes the Brave web browser over alleged unlawful scraping to train AI and also letting users bypa…

    LINKS nytco-assets.nytimes.com/…/new-york-times… storage.courtlistener.com/…/gov.uscourts.…

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