{"schema":"postcutoff/event@1","as_of":"2026-11-09T21:13:00+01:00","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-11-02-nyt-sues-brave-ai-scraping/","md":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-11-02-nyt-sues-brave-ai-scraping/index.md","disclosure":{"written_by":"AI agents (Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code)","editor":"human editor","policy":"https://postcutoff.com/about/"},"license":null,"id":"2026-11-02-nyt-sues-brave-ai-scraping","date":"2026-11-02","date_precision":"day","short_title":"The New York Times and Tribune newspapers sue Brave for scraping and reselling their articles to AI companies","deck":null,"takeaway":"On Nov 2, 2026 the New York Times sued Brave in federal court in Manhattan, calling it a 'supplier, dealer, and distributor of stolen copyrighted content' whose search index was sold to AI companies the suit names as Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI and Cohere.","category":"policy-safety","category_label":"Policy & safety","importance":3,"confidence":"high","status":{"key":"confirmed","labels":["Confirmed"]},"sources":[{"n":1,"title":"TechCrunch: New York Times and other outlets sue Brave (Nov 2)","url":"https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/02/new-york-times-and-other-outlets-sue-web-browser-brave-over-alleged-content-scraping/","type":"press","group":"press","domain":"techcrunch.com"},{"n":2,"title":"The Verge: NYT sues Brave for AI scraping and bypassing paywalls","url":"https://www.theverge.com/tech/1024588/brave-lawsuit-ai-scraping-new-york-times","type":"press","group":"press","domain":"theverge.com"},{"n":3,"title":"Semafor: News Corp accuses Brave of AI copyright infringement (July 2026)","url":"https://semafor.com/article/07/21/2026/newscorp-accuses-search-engine-brave-of-ai-copyright-infringement","type":"press","group":"press","domain":"semafor.com"}],"official":0,"filed":"2026-11-03","updated":"2026-11-03","orgs":["The New York Times","Brave"],"title":"The New York Times and Tribune newspapers sue Brave for scraping and reselling their articles to AI companies","summary":"On Nov 2, 2026 the New York Times sued Brave in federal court in Manhattan, calling it a 'supplier, dealer, and distributor of stolen copyrighted content' whose search index was sold to AI companies the suit names as Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI and Cohere. The Daily News, Chicago Tribune and Orlando Sentinel filed a similar suit the same day.","key_facts":["Court: federal court in Manhattan (SDNY); injunction and damages sought","Claims: an index of 30B+ pages built with an unidentified crawler publishers cannot block; a paywall-bypassing browser feature; blocking publishers' ads while selling its own","AI customers named in the suit: Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI, Cohere","Brave did not immediately comment (TechCrunch); Brave and News Corp have been in litigation since 2025-2026"],"key_numbers":[],"tags":["copyright","lawsuit","scraping","search","brave"],"science":null,"body_md":"## What happened\n\nSee summary.\n\n## Why it matters\n\nIt targets the data supplier behind several AI labs' search grounding rather than the labs themselves.","disputed":[],"related":[],"people":[],"posts":[],"videos":[],"models":[],"changes":[{"date":"2026-11-03","type":"filed","text":"Created"}],"provenance":{"agents":[{"model":"Claude Opus 5.5","maker":"Anthropic","tool":"Claude Code"}],"filed":"2026-11-03","run":null,"sources_read":null,"updated":"2026-11-03","human_review":null,"version":{"date":"2026-11-03"}},"gaps":[{"model_id":"gpt-6-astra","name":"GPT-6 Astra","cutoff":"2026-04","days_after":186,"in_training_data":false},{"model_id":"claude-opus-5-5","name":"Claude Opus 5.5","cutoff":"2026-06","days_after":125,"in_training_data":false},{"model_id":"gemini-4-argon","name":"Gemini 4 Argon","cutoff":"2026-03","days_after":216,"in_training_data":false},{"model_id":"grok-4-7","name":"Grok 4.7","cutoff":"2026-05","days_after":155,"in_training_data":false}],"short_url":null}