The New York Times and other publishers sue Brave Software over content scraping for AI training
The New York Times and other publishers (New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune, Orlando Sentinel) are suing Brave Software over allegedly illegal scraping of their websites and selling access to this data to AI companies through Brave Index; the lawsuit also mentions paywall bypassing.
The New York Times and the publishers behind the New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune and Orlando Sentinel have filed a lawsuit against Brave Software, the maker of the Brave browser, The Verge reported, citing the Reuters news agency. The plaintiffs claim that Brave scrapes their web content without permission and then sells it as part of its Brave Index product.
According to the lawsuit, Brave provides AI companies with paid access to \"real-time online content from Brave Index,\" which these companies use to train models and to answer specific user queries. The publishers further accuse Brave of allowing its browser's users to bypass their paid paywalls.
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Why it matters
The case is another test of whether selling access to large web indexes to AI companies without publishers' permission will hold up legally. The outcome could affect not only Brave but also other companies offering similar data products for AI model training, as well as users who rely on paywall-bypassing features.
Two audiences, two different impacts
What this means
For individuals
If a reader uses the Brave browser to bypass paid articles, this feature could become a target for legal regulation or restriction depending on the outcome of the lawsuit.
For a business
The dispute highlights legal risk for companies that monetize scraped web content by selling access to it to AI companies for model training; content publishers may similarly sue other providers of similar indexes.
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Event sources
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