纽约时报等媒体起诉浏览器公司 Brave 涉嫌抓取版权内容
New York Times and other outlets sue web browser Brave over alleged content scraping
- 1纽约时报在曼哈顿联邦法院起诉隐私浏览器 Brave，指控其抓取版权内容并分发给多家 AI 公司
- 2起诉书称 Brave 用未具名爬虫建立了超过 300 亿网页的索引，出版商无法屏蔽它
- 3Daily News、芝加哥论坛报和奥兰多哨兵报同日在曼哈顿联邦法院提起类似诉讼
- 4起诉还针对 Brave 绕过付费墙的功能，及其屏蔽出版商广告、售卖自家广告的做法
版权方针对 AI 内容滥用的诉讼正从模型公司扩展到分发渠道，浏览器这类基础设施也开始成为被告。
- 影响：依赖抓取内容的数据或 AI 服务，供应方被诉可能波及下游客户，起诉书已把客户列为分发对象；内容授权成本可能上升，采购合同需审视数据来源与合规条款。
- 参考：可考虑盘点现有知识库与 AI 工具的内容来源，要求供应商说明抓取范围和授权情况；采购合同值得加入数据来源合规条款，内容依赖度高的业务可预先评估授权预算。
- 依据：起诉书称 Brave 建有超 300 亿网页索引并绕过付费墙，全部为原告单方指控，Brave 尚未回应，暂无独立验证。
In Brief
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11:19 AM PST · November 2, 2026
The New York Times sued Brave, the 11-year-old, privacy-focused browser company, on Monday, alleging it scraped the outlet’s copyrighted content and unlawfully distributed it to customers the suit names as Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI, and Cohere.
Separately on Monday, the Daily News, the Chicago Tribune, and the Orlando Sentinel filed a similar lawsuit. Both were brought in federal court in Manhattan.
The New York Times, which has also sued OpenAI and Perplexity over similar claims, likens Brave to a “supplier, dealer, and distributor of stolen copyrighted content” for AI companies.
“In this way, Brave acts both like a burglar that misappropriates the content of publishers, and an AI ‘fence’ that sells stolen content to third parties,” the suit reads. It says Brave built an index of more than 30 billion webpages using an unidentified crawler, leaving publishers unable to block it.
The suit also targets a Brave browser feature that bypasses paywalls and the company’s practice of blocking publishers’ ads while selling its own.
Founded in 2015, Brave has raised roughly $250 million to date, according to private-market trackers. The Times seeks an injunction and damages.
Brave did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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