New York Times sues Brave over AI scraping and alleged paywall bypass
Publishers allege Brave sold AI firms access to scraped articles and helped readers bypass paywalls.
By RuntimeWire Staff · Published
Primary source: The Verge
Why it matters
The cases test whether an independent search index can sell AI firms access to publisher content without direct licenses. The outcome could set the price of fresh web data for model training and retrieval, with Brave's Search API business at the center.
The New York Times and the publishers of the New York Daily News, the Chicago Tribune and the Orlando Sentinel filed lawsuits against Brave Software on November 2nd, accusing Brave of scraping their articles, selling AI firms access to that material and helping readers bypass paywalls. Brave was co-founded by Brendan Eich and Brian Bondy in 2015.…
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