The New York Times sues Brave web browser for AI scraping and bypassing paywalls

The New York Times and other publications have filed a lawsuit against Brave Software, the company behind the Brave web browser, for allegedly scraping copyrighted content from their websites to train AI models and bypassing paywalls. Brave has provided 'stolen copyrighted content' to AI companies like Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI, and Cohere. The browser also promotes hundreds of top publishers as accessible through its 'Paywall blocker' feature, which allows users to bypass paywalls without permission. The lawsuit claims Brave has never asked for permission to access the publishers' websites or compensated them for the use of their copyrighted content.