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The New York Times Co. v. Brave Software, Inc.: the Times sues Brave over scraping its sites into the Brave Index, Ask Brave answers, the Brave Search API sold to AI companies, and the browser's paywall blocker

Statutory damages, actual damages and restitution of profits; no total stated

Dated 2 Nov 2026Source checked 2 Nov 2026Not re-read automatically: the site's terms or its robots.txt do not allow itBasis: stated

Selling a company's data? This court record shows how such a sale is decided, and the guide beside the button reads it in plain words.

  • No data upload
  • About two minutes
  • No email needed
In the source's own words
“Brave is the supplier, dealer, and distributor of stolen copyrighted content for its own users and many of the most prominent GenAI companies, including Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI, and Cohere.”
The New York Times Co. v. Brave Software, Inc.: the Times sues Brave over scraping its…