The New York Times is suing Brave Software, the company behind the Brave web browser, alleging the browser scrapes the newspaper’s copyrighted content and unlawfully provides it to others, including generative AI companies such as Anthropic and Perplexity. The claim also centers on whether Brave’s features help users bypass publishers’ paywalls.

Multiple outlets report that the New York Times is not alone. Several other US publishers—including the New York Daily News, the Chicago Tribune, and the Orlando Sentinel—file separate federal lawsuits that reportedly raise similar allegations. These complaints describe a “Brave Index” that, in the publishers’ view, is monetized and used to provide real-time online content to AI companies for training, answering user questions, or both.

Coverage emphasizes the same core dispute—copyrighted content access without permission and paywall circumvention—while differences mostly relate to which publishers are highlighted first, and how explicitly coverage details the alleged mechanism linking scraping to AI training and “Brave Index” access.