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New York Times Sues Brave Over Copyright and AI Content Use

The New York Times and three other US newspapers accuse Brave of copying articles and selling them to AI companies.

Sources: Techmaniacs, El Chapuzas Informático, Inside Telecom (Norway)3 sources ↓|· 1 min read
New York Times Sues Brave Over Copyright and AI Content Use
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KEY POINTS

  • The New York Times sued Brave Software for copyright infringement and unfair commercial exploitation.
  • Three other US newspapers filed similar lawsuits shortly afterward.
  • Brave Index reportedly contains more than 30 billion web pages.
  • Ask Brave allegedly reproduced 87 percent of a paywalled article.
  • The Brave Search API allegedly recovered 99.7 percent of another article.

The New York Times has filed a copyright lawsuit against Brave Software in a New York federal court. The newspaper alleges that Brave systematically copies content from news websites and supplies it to artificial intelligence companies, allowing them to bypass paywalls without paying creators.

The lawsuit centers on Brave Index, a proprietary database containing more than 30 billion web pages. Publishers say Brave uses automated software to scan and store articles without permission, using them both for its own services and as a commercial product for training AI models.

“Brave operates in practice as a link in a chain distributing unauthorized content, feeding the market with material for which it does not hold rights.”

— The New York Times

Three other US newspapers—the New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune, and Orlando Sentinel—filed parallel lawsuits within hours. They accuse Brave of building a business around copyrighted content and exploiting journalists' work without payment.

The New York Times says its tests showed Ask Brave reproduced about 87 percent of a paywalled article almost word for word. A separate test of the Brave Search API recovered 1,291 of 1,295 words from an original article, or 99.7 percent of the text.

The complaint names Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI, and Cohere as customers of the Brave Search API. The Times argues Brave acts as a conduit in a chain distributing unauthorized content.

Brave has not issued a public response in the sources reviewed. The lawsuits were filed on November 2 and November 4, 2026.

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