The New York Times and the companies that publish the New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune and Orlando Sentinel filed lawsuits against Brave Software, the company behind the Brave web browser, over alleged scraping of journalism for artificial intelligence products and tools that let users bypass paywalls, The Verge reported Monday¹.

Reuters separately reported that the Times sued the maker of the Brave browser over copyrights².

According to a complaint filed by the Daily News, Tribune and Sentinel publishers and summarized by The Verge, Brave has sold paid access to material from its web index, which AI companies then use to train models, answer user queries, or both¹.

The Verge said the complaint alleges Brave provided copyrighted material to AI companies including Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI and Cohere¹.

The same complaint, as quoted by The Verge, says Brave did not seek the publishers’ permission to copy material or provide it to users or other AI companies, and that Brave has not compensated the publishers¹.

The Verge also reported that Brave promotes a “Paywall blocker” feature in its browser that it says makes hundreds of publishers accessible¹.

Times spokesperson Graham James said in a statement to The Verge that the newspaper had asked Brave to stop what it called infringing conduct and filed suit to hold the company accountable¹.

The Verge said Brave, Anthropic, Mistral, SpaceXSI and Cohere did not immediately reply to a request for comment¹.

Jesse Dwyer, Perplexity’s chief communications officer, told The Verge: “The New York Times is overpaying its attorneys and underpaying its journalists.”¹