The Next WebAna-Maria Stanciuc
New York Times and three other US papers sue Brave over AI scraping
The New York Times sued Brave Software on Monday, accusing the browser maker of scraping its journalism and selling access to it to AI companies.
Hours later, the publishers of the New York Daily News, the Chicago Tribune and the Orlando Sentinel filed a separate lawsuit making similar allegations.
Both cases were brought in federal court in Manhattan, and both focus on the same part of Brave’s business: its search index and the data it makes available to AI developers.
Brave acts like “a burglar that misappropriates the content of publishers, and an AI ‘fence’ that sells stolen content,” the three newspapers say in their complaint, which we have reviewed.
Steven Lieberman, attorney for the MediaNews Group and Tribune Publishing, said in…
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