Perplexity's chief communications officer disputes lawsuit claims
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Jesse Dwyer, Perplexity's chief communications officer, responded to the lawsuit by attacking the Times' legal and editorial practices, saying the outlet is "overpaying its attorneys and underpaying its journalists" and claiming the Times could have "easily identified the disinformation in this suit."
“The New York Times is overpaying its attorneys and underpaying its journalists. (Who could've easily identified the disinformation in this suit.)”
Jesse DwyerNew York Times Lead plaintiffBrave Software DefendantAnthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI, Cohere AI companies named in lawsuitNew York Daily News, Chicago Tribune, Orlando Sentinel Co-plaintiffsJesse Dwyer Perplexity chief communications officer
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8 outlets Tech company Brave plundered Daily News' content and resold it to A.I. giants: copyright lawsuit
first by New York Daily News, 6d ago · also Orlando Sentinel, Baltimore Sun, Mercury News, Chicago Tribune, The Wrap, Yahoo +1
4 more headlines
- Tech company Brave plundered Orlando Sentinel’s content and resold it to A.I. giants: copyright lawsuit Orlando Sentinel · 6d ago
- Tech company Brave plundered newspapers’ content and resold it to AI giants: copyright lawsuit Baltimore Sun · 6d ago
- Tech company Brave plundered Chicago Tribune’s content and resold it to A.I. giants: copyright lawsuit Chicago Tribune · 5d ago
- New York Times, Chicago Tribune Sue Tech Company Brave Over AI Copyright Claims The Wrap · 5d ago
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Waarom zet een krant überhaupt artikelen op het internet achter een Betaalmuur? Levert dat écht abonnees op?
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🦁 The NYT sues Brave for stealing its content and reselling it to 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…
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It works by having government owned media networks. Like the CBC in Canada. Or the BBC in the uk. The issue is, as much as the CBC leans politically the same way I do. I still think they are bias towards left leaning things. And that’s not right. Not saying the corporate news networks ARENT bias in either direction. But at least you can choose…
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📰 Publishers sue Brave over scraping The New York Times and other outlets are suing Brave over alleged content scraping. Who owns news is back in court. 🔗 techcrunch.com/2026/11/02/new-york-times-and-other-outlets-sue-web-browser-brave-over-alleged-content-scraping/ #AI #Copyright #News
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TL;DR: The New York Times has filed a lawsuit against Brave, claiming the company acts as a distributor of stolen news content by enabling paywall blocking and partnering with AI firms. https:// arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20 26/11/nyt-demands-brave-shut-down-its-paywall-blocker-and-end-deals-with-ai-firms/ # law # tech # legaltech ⚖️ 🤖 # autosum
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Sort of self explanatory I'd think. Unlike chairs and garden hoses, and much more like health care, education, and basic sustenance, access to unbiased factual information is necessary to the health of a democracy and it's people. The alternative is public funding with public oversight.
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"The New York Times sued Brave, the 11-year-old, privacy-focused browser company, alleging it scraped the outlet’s copyrighted content and unlawfully distributed it to customers…"
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New York Times, Chicago Tribune Sue Brave Over AI Copyright Claims https:// blog.quintarelli.it/2026/11/ne w-york-times-chicago-tribune-sue-brave-over-ai-copyright-claims/
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Newspapers have always been sustained by both advertising and subscriptions, for decades. Relying just on advertising is not enough to income to field a newsroom. The early 2000s demonstrated this. Relying just on subscriptions results in an inaccessible price.
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Old enough to remember when a single movie copyright incident could garner a 6 figure fine.
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i think its a "we put up a paper fence and you walked around it!, so we need stronger laws to hurt them!" type of argument.
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Tak to vypadá, že prohlížeč Brave se dostává na dno. From hero to zero. https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/02/new-york-times-and-other-outlets-sue-web-browser-brave-over-alleged-content-scraping/ #brave
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They try to make you log in even when someone gifts you an article. It’s ridiculous.
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Publishers shouldn’t have to watch their work scraped, repackaged, and monetized by tech companies without permission or compensation. We're glad to see another example of publishers standing up for journalism and those who produce it. via @theverge.com
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The NYT just sued Brave 👀 Suit says Brave scraped its articles and sold access to AI cos like Anthropic, Perplexity, xAI and Cohere.
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El New York Times demanda al navegador web Brave por extraer datos mediante IA y eludir los muros de pago. (Inglés) Vía: @theverge.com
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