Newspapers Sue Brave Software for Illegally Scraping Articles

A group of newspapers, including the New York Times and the New York Daily ​News, sued Internet company Brave Software in Manhattan federal court ‌on Monday for allegedly scraping their articles for AI training and unlawfully enabling users of its web browser to circumvent their paywalls. The newspapers said in the complaints, that Brave illegally sells their content to AI companies including ​Anthropic, Perplexity and xAI — which are not defendants in the ⁠cases — in addition to infringing their copyrights by allowing users to ​access their articles for free.