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Tech · November 2, 2026

New York Times sues maker of Brave web browser over copyrights

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A group of news organizations, including The New York Times, New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune, and Orlando Sentinel, have filed lawsuits against Brave Software in Manhattan federal court. The complaints allege that the privacy-focused web browser company unlawfully scraped copyrighted content to build a search index of over 30 billion webpages. The publishers claim Brave monetized this data by selling access to AI companies—including Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI, and Cohere—to train their models and answer user queries. Additionally, the lawsuits target Brave's browser features that allegedly enable users to bypass paywalls without publisher permission.

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  • The New York Times and several other publications filed lawsuits against Brave Software in Manhattan federal court on November 2, 2026.
  • The lawsuits allege that Brave unlawfully scraped copyrighted content to train AI and build its search index.
  • Brave is accused of distributing content to AI companies including Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI, and Cohere.
  • The litigation includes claims that Brave promotes features allowing users to bypass publisher paywalls.

Reported by only some outlets

  • The New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune, and Orlando Sentinel filed a separate but similar lawsuit to the one filed by The New York Times.
  • Brave's index is reported to contain more than 30 billion webpages.
  • Brave was founded 11 years ago.
  • The lawsuits claim Brave used an unidentified crawler that publishers were unable to block.

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