4 US newspapers sue Brave for selling their content to AI companies
The New York Times sued Brave in Manhattan, and hours later three other newspapers filed a similar suit accusing the browser of selling their content to AI.
The New York Times filed a lawsuit against Brave Software in a federal court in Manhattan, accusing it of scraping journalistic content and selling it to AI companies, according to The Next Web.
Hours later, the New York Daily News, the Chicago Tribune and the Orlando Sentinel filed a separate lawsuit containing similar claims.
The lawsuits state that Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI and Cohere are among the clients that buy access to Brave's index.
The newspapers are seeking compensation, disgorgement of profits made and an injunction preventing the practice from continuing.
What do these terms mean?
Scraping: automatically collecting data or text from websites without the express permission of their owners.
Disgorgement of profits: an amount a defendant is ordered to return if it is proven to have earned it unlawfully.
Injunction: a court order requiring a party to stop a certain behaviour.
Search index: a database that stores copies of web pages for use in search results.
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