The New York Times (et al.) Sues Brave for Copyright Infringement, Selling Scraped Content to AI Companies for Model Training

· Daring Fireball · Nov. 3, 2026, 3:54 p.m.
Summary
The New York Times and several other newspapers are suing Brave for allegedly scraping their content to train AI models and for allowing users to bypass paywalls. The lawsuit claims Brave has monetized this scraped data by selling access to AI companies, using 'stolen copyrighted content'.