The New York Times and others sue Brave for illegally scraping content to train AI

Nov 3

1. 09:02

   Unite.AI

   New York Times and Other Publishers Sue Brave, Alleging Its AI Search Copies News Content

   The New York Times Company filed a federal lawsuit against Brave Software on November 2, 2026, alleging that it copied and distributed news content without authorization through its search index, AI services, and browser; the publishers of the New York Daily News, the Chicago Tribune, and the Orlando Sentinel filed a separate lawsuit in the Southern District of New York the same day. The two complaints state that Brave's index contains more than 30 billion web pages, that Ask Brave feeds content into large language models via RAG, and that testing produced cases including a verbatim return of more than 400 words and the API's LLM Context endpoint returning 1,291 of 1,295 words as original text; they also allege that the browser's "Paywall blocker" setting can display paid articles and replace publishers' ads with Brave Ads. The publishers seek statutory and actual damages, disgorgement of profits, attorneys' fees, and a permanent injunction, and demand a jury trial.

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2. 04:55

   heise online

   The New York Times and other newspapers sue Brave Software for using their articles to train AI without authorization

   Several U.S. newspapers, including The New York Times and the New York Daily News, have sued Brave Software in Manhattan federal court, alleging that it used newspaper articles to train AI models without permission and allowed browser users to bypass paywalls. The complaint alleges that Brave charges Anthropic, Perplexity, xAI and other companies to provide real-time online content from the Brave index, but those AI companies were not named as defendants. The New York Times previously sued OpenAI and Microsoft in late 2023 over copyright issues related to AI training.

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3. 03:19

   TechCrunch AI

   New York Times and Other Media Sue Brave for Alleged Content Scraping

   The New York Times and other media outlets sued the browser Brave in Manhattan federal court, alleging that it used an unnamed crawler to build an index of more than 30 billion web pages, leaving publishers unable to block it. The complaint also targets Brave's practice of bypassing paywalls and blocking publishers' ads while selling its own ads; the New York Times is seeking an injunction and damages. On the same day, the Daily News, Chicago Tribune, and Orlando Sentinel filed separate similar lawsuits.

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4. 01:51

   The Verge AI

   The New York Times and other publishers sue Brave browser for scraping content to train AI and bypassing paywalls

   The New York Times and several other publishers have filed a lawsuit against the company behind the Brave browser, accusing it of scraping content without permission to train AI and of letting users bypass paywalls. The complaint states that Brave never sought permission from publishers, and that its browser also advertises a "Paywall blocker" feature that provides access to "hundreds of top publishers." Perplexity Chief Communications Officer Jesse Dwyer responded to The Verge, saying that The New York Times spends too much on lawyers and too little on journalists.

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