Publishers including the New York Times and the New York Daily News filed suit in Manhattan federal court accusing Brave Software of illegally scraping copyrighted articles. Legal filings characterize the browser developer as both a burglar and a fence that distributes stolen reporting to third-party artificial intelligence builders. The complaints state that Brave sold this protected journalism directly to tech firms such as Anthropic, Perplexity, and xAI, although those AI companies were not named as defendants. Spokesperson Graham James noted that Brave disregarded direct requests to halt the practice, prompting the litigation.
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Publishers are aggressively leveraging federal copyright lawsuits to target browser devel…: Publishers are aggressively leveraging federal copyright lawsuits to target browser developers that assist in bypassing paid subscription paywalls.
Legal claims accuse software intermediaries of unauthorized data harvesting to supply dat…: Legal claims accuse software intermediaries of unauthorized data harvesting to supply datasets to major artificial intelligence model developers.
Third-party AI recipients named in the complaint have pushed back publicly against the me…: Third-party AI recipients named in the complaint have pushed back publicly against the media outlets despite not being designated as defendants.
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Nov 2 (Reuters) - A group of newspapers, including the New York Times (NYT.N), opens new tab 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, opens new tab 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
"The New York Times is overpaying its attorneys and underpaying its journalists. (Who could've easily identified the disinformation in this suit.)," a Perplexity spokesperson said in response
Spokespeople for Brave, Anthropic and xAI did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the complaints
"While we believe in the ethical and responsible use and development of AI, Brave has flouted established copyright law and ignored repeated requests by The…
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