Copyright lawsuit alleges Brave scraped Orlando Sentinel content and resold it to AI giants

The New York Daily News, Orlando Sentinel, The New York Times and newspapers under Tribune Publishing sued Brave Software in Manhattan federal court, alleging that it scraped and resold copyrighted news content to AI companies such as Anthropic and Perplexity. The complaint states that Brave's crawler index scraped more than 30 billion web pages without identifying itself and without providing website owners a blocking mechanism, and that it also provided users with content bypassing paywalls through its browser and sold content to third parties for training AI models. The lawsuit lists five claims of direct, contributory and vicarious copyright infringement, citing as an example that Brave's Ask Brave feature once listed the titles of 35 paywalled articles from The New York Daily News from that day and asked users whether they wanted to scrape the full text. The complaint states that AI companies such as Anthropic, which are alleged to have purchased the content, were not named as defendants, while the same group of newspapers is also suing OpenAI and Microsoft on similar grounds.