The New York Times sues Brave web browser for AI scraping and bypassing paywalls
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TL;DR
- The New York Times, New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune, and Orlando Sentinel have sued Brave Software.
- Brave is accused of unlawfully scraping content to train AI models.
- Brave allegedly provides paid access to its index of scraped websites for AI training.
- The browser is also accused of allowing users to bypass publisher paywalls without consent.
- Publishers state Brave has never asked for permission or compensated them for the use of their copyrighted content.
- The lawsuits claim Brave has ignored requests to cease infringing conduct.