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TechCrunch · November 3, 2026 · On the brief until November 17, 2026

New York Times and other outlets sue web browser Brave over alleged content scraping

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Receiving scraped news data from commercial intermediaries

The New York Times and other news publishers sued Brave in federal court. They allege the browser scraped copyrighted reporting and distributed it to artificial intelligence companies. The cases target intermediary companies that collect news content to sell to model developers.

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The dispute questions whether indexing paywalled news and selling that data to AI firms makes an intermediary liable for copyright infringement.

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