New York Times, Chicago Tribune Sue Tech Company Brave Over AI Copyright Claims
2026-11-02
Yahoo News
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The New York Times, New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune, and Orlando Sentinel have sued Brave Software, alleging it scraped and distributed their copyrighted journalism to AI companies like Anthropic and Perplexity without authorization. The lawsuits claim Brave's AI systems enabled copyright violations, harming publishers' revenue and intellectual property rights.[AI generated]
Why's our monitor labelling this an incident or hazard?
The event explicitly involves AI systems (Brave's AI search tool and its API) used to reproduce and distribute copyrighted content without authorization, leading to lawsuits alleging copyright infringement. This constitutes a violation of intellectual property rights, which is a recognized harm under the AI Incident definition. The harm is realized, as the newspapers claim loss of revenue and unauthorized use of their content. Hence, this is an AI Incident due to the direct involvement of AI systems in causing legal and economic harm through copyright violations.[AI generated]