The New York Times and other publishers sue Brave browser for scraping content to train AI and bypassing paywalls
The New York Times and several other publishers have filed a lawsuit against the company behind the Brave browser, accusing it of scraping content without permission to train AI and of letting users bypass paywalls. The complaint states that Brave never sought permission from publishers, and that its browser also advertises a "Paywall blocker" feature that provides access to "hundreds of top publishers." Perplexity Chief Communications Officer Jesse Dwyer responded to The Verge, saying that The New York Times spends too much on lawyers and too little on journalists.
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The lawsuit combines browser scraping for training and paywall circumvention in a single cause of action, giving readers a window into the new round of copyright clashes between content owners and AI companies.
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The New York Times and a group of other publications have filed lawsuits against the company that makes the Brave web browser over alleged unlawful scraping to train AI and also letting users bypass their paywalls, as reported by Reuters .
Brave also promotes “hundreds of top publishers” as being accessible through its “Paywall blocker” feature in its browser.
“Brave has never asked for the Publishers’ permission to access their websites, much less to copy the material and provide it to users or other AI companies,” the complaint says. “On the contrary, as noted above, Brave allows its users to bypass the Publishers’ paywalls without
Brave, Anthropic, Mistral, SpaceXSI, and Cohere, didn’t immediately reply to a request for comment. “ The New York Times is overpaying its attorneys and underpaying its journalists. (Who could’ve easily identified the disinformation in this suit.)” Jesse Dwyer, Perplexity’s chief communications officer, says in a statement to The Verge .