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New York Times and Daily News sue Brave over copyright infringement
Reuters · 4 hours ago · Read the Full Story on Reuters
AI SUMMARY
Newspapers including the New York Times and New York Daily News have sued Brave Software in federal court for allegedly scraping articles for AI training and enabling paywall circumvention.
- The New York Times, the New York Daily News, and other newspapers sued Brave Software in Manhattan federal court.
- Brave is accused of scraping articles for AI training and allowing users to bypass paywalls for free access.
- The lawsuits allege that Brave sells publisher content to AI companies including Anthropic, Perplexity, and xAI.
- Anthropic, Perplexity, and xAI are not defendants in the lawsuits.
- A Perplexity spokesperson criticized the New York Times over legal and journalistic spending.
- New York Times spokesperson Graham James stated that Brave has ignored requests to stop infringing conduct.
- The news outlets have separately sued OpenAI over AI training in a potential landmark case.
- The cases are filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York under case numbers 1:26-cv-09549 and 1:26-cv-09554.
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