New York Times and other outlets sue web browser Brave over alleged content scraping

Rebecca Bellan

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New York Times and other outlets sue web browser Brave over alleged content scraping

The New York Times is suing privacy-focused web browser company Brave for allegedly scraping the outlet's copyrighted content and unlawfully distributing it to its own customers, like Anthropic and Perplexity

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The New York Times sued Brave, the 11-year-old, privacy-focused browser company, on Monday, alleging it scraped the outlet's copyrighted content and unlawfully distributed it to customers the suit names as Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI, and Cohere

Separately on Monday, the Daily News, the Chicago Tribune, and the Orlando Sentinel filed a similar lawsuit. Both were brought in federal court in Manhattan

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New York Times and other outlets sue web browser Brave over alleged content scraping

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