The New York Times has filed a lawsuit against Brave, the developer of the privacy-focused browser that has been operating for 11 years, accusing the company of illegally extracting the newspaper's copyrighted content and distributing it to customers named in the suit: Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI and Cohere.
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In a separate lawsuit filed on Monday, the Daily News, the Chicago Tribune and the Orlando Sentinel filed similar claims. Both suits were filed in federal court in Manhattan.
The New York Times, which has previously sued OpenAI and Perplexity over similar allegations, described Brave as "a supplier, trader and distributor of stolen, copyrighted content" for AI companies.
The complaint states: "In this way, Brave acts on one hand like a thief that illegitimately seizes publishers' content, and on the other like a broker that sells the stolen content to third parties working in artificial intelligence."
The suit alleges that Brave built an index of more than 30 billion web pages using a web crawler whose identity was not disclosed, which deprived publishers of the ability to block it or prevent it from accessing their content.
The lawsuit also targets a feature of the Brave browser that allows users to bypass paywalls and paid subscriptions to access content, as well as the company's practice of blocking publishers' ads while selling its own.
Brave was founded in 2015 and has since raised funding estimated at about $250 million, according to firms that track private company investments.
The New York Times is asking the court to issue an injunction to stop the disputed practices, and to award financial compensation for the alleged damages.
