New York Times sues Brave browser maker
The gist
The New York Times sued Brave Software in Manhattan federal court over scraping its journalism for AI companies.
The case tests whether Brave's search index can be treated as a content marketplace.
How it unfolded
- Mar 2025Brave sued News Corp, asking a court to declare its web indexing fair use.
- Jul 2025News Corp countersued Brave, accusing it of theft.
- Jul 22, 2026News Corp is suing Brave AI, alleging the privacy-focused search engine disguises its web crawlers to evade publisher blocks and delivers "verbatim or near verbatim" news summaries to AI companies.