The New York Times and other publishers sue Brave for bypassing paywalls and providing content to AI companies
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U.S. publishers including The New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Orlando Sentinel have sued Brave Software, alleging that it scraped website content without permission and, through its Paywall blocker feature, helped users bypass the paywalls of hundreds of news outlets. The complaint alleges that Brave provided its index database of scraped content, Brave Index, to AI companies such as Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI, and Cohere. A New York Times spokesperson, Graham James, said that Brave disregards existing copyright law and has ignored repeated demands to stop infringing.
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The lawsuit reveals that Brave provided its crawl index to multiple AI companies, shedding light on the points of contention in the news content licensing chain.
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《纽约时报》、《芝加哥论坛报》和《奥兰多哨兵报》等美国出版商起诉 Brave Software，指控其未经许可抓取网站内容，并帮助用户绕过付费墙。Brave Software 被控将其抓取内容的索引数据库 Brave Index 提供给 Anthropic、Perplexity、Mistral、xAI 和 Cohere 等 AI 公司，通过 Paywall blocker 功能帮助用户绕过数百家新闻媒体的付费墙。《纽约时报》发言人 Graham James 在一份声明中表示：“我们支持合乎道德且负责任的使用与开发 AI，但 Brave 公然蔑视现行版权法，对《纽约时报》多次要求其停止侵权行为的诉求置之不理。我们提起此项诉讼，旨在追究 Brave 的责任——它窃取了我们的内容，不仅用于支撑其自身产品，还将其提供给部分全球最知名、资源最雄厚的生成式 AI 公司。”