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NYT sues Brave for AI scraping and paywall bypass
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- →Targets the data infrastructure layer by suing the browser/index provider rather than just model labs.
- →Names specific major AI labs (Anthropic, Mistral, xAI) as recipients of alleged infringing data.
- →Combines copyright claims with paywall circumvention allegations, raising technical and legal stakes.
The New York Times, joined by the Chicago Tribune, Orlando Sentinel, and New York Daily News, has filed a lawsuit against Brave Software for alleged copyright infringement. The complaint claims Brave scraped publisher content without permission to build its web index and sold access to AI companies including Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI, and Cohere. Additionally, the suit alleges Brave facilitates paywall bypasses for users. Brave has not commented, while Perplexity dismissed the suit as disinformation. This legal action targets the data supply chain of generative AI development.
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