New York Times and other publishers sue Brave over scraping and content distribution
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The New York Times and other publishers sued Brave Software, accusing it of scraping content for AI use without permission or payment and of letting browser users bypass paywalls. The complaint says Brave sells AI companies access to live web content through Brave Index. It names Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI and Cohere, and says an unidentified crawler built an index of more than 30 billion pages. Brave had not responded when The Verge reported; Perplexity's chief communications officer called the suit false.
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- TechCrunch · AINew York Times and other outlets sue web browser Brave over alleged content scraping
《纽约时报》等媒体周一起诉浏览器公司 Brave，指控其抓取受版权保护的内容并非法分发给 AI 公司。《纽约时报》的诉状列出 Anthropic、Perplexity、Mistral、xAI 和 Cohere，并称 Brave 使用身份不明的爬虫建立了超过 30 billion 个网页的索引，使出版商无法阻止抓取。
- The Verge · AIThe New York Times sues Brave web browser for AI scraping and bypassing paywalls
《纽约时报》等出版机构起诉 Brave Software，指控其非法抓取内容供 AI 使用，并允许浏览器用户绕过付费墙。诉状称，Brave 向 AI 公司出售 Brave Index 实时在线内容的访问权限，用于训练模型或回答用户查询，且未经出版机构许可或支付补偿。Brave 未立即回应置评请求，Perplexity 的首席传播官则称诉讼包含虚假信息。
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