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Publishers vs Brave AI Content Scraping

A series of lawsuits pits major news publishers, led by The New York Times, against Brave Software for allegedly harvesting and selling billions of webpages to artificial‑intelligence firms. The latest filing intensifies the dispute, with the Times seeking damages over 30 billion pages, leaving the case unresolved and heading toward a potentially landmark court decision.

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    New York Times sues Brave over 30 billion webpages sold to AI companies

    The New York Times filed a lawsuit against Brave on November 2, alleging the company copied more than 30 billion webpages without identifying its crawler or giving site owners a way to block it,…

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    The New York Times and other publishers sue Brave Software for allegedly scraping content and selling it to AI companies

    The New York Times, along with the New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune, and Orlando Sentinel, has filed lawsuits against Brave Software, alleging the company scraped copyrighted content from…

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