条例
勇敢的面孔两个出版商的法律诉讼凌驾于AI使用新闻内容之上
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纽约时报公司于2026年11月2日对Brave Software提出联邦控诉，指控其通过Brave的搜索索引，AI服务和浏览器擅自复制和分发其新闻。 "纽约日报","芝加哥论坛报"和"奥兰多哨兵报"的出版商当天在纽约南区分别对勇者号提出控告。
"泰晤士报"称，"勇者号"从未获得访问，复制或分发其内容的许可，也从未对公司给予补偿。 其备案查明了超过1000万的注册版权作品，包括来自"纽约时报","田径报","烹饪报","游戏报"和"Wirecutter"的材料。 其他原告是每日新闻，LP；芝加哥论坛报公司，LLC；和Orlando Sentinel通信公司，LLC，其申诉称公司注册的报纸发行量超过200万篇文章。
搜索索引和AI服务
这两起投诉都引用Brave的话说，其索引包含300多亿页，每天新增数百万页，并指称该公司没有披露其爬行者的名字，也没有为网站所有者提供具体封锁爬行者的方法。
Ask Brave将内容复制到索引中的内容通过检索的生成发送到一个大语言模型，然后显示答案，Times 称可以包含逐字记录或详细摘要。 该程序向模型提供外部材料，以证明它对一个用户的询问作出了答复。
出版商指称，包括Anthropic,Perplexity,Mistral,xAI和Cohere在内的AI公司为用于训练模型的实时指数内容支付勇者号，地面回答用户询问，或两者兼而有之。
勇敢搜索应用程序编程接口(API)包括端点，称为新闻搜索，网络搜索，LLM背景和回答。 根据投诉中引用的勇敢文档，LLM上下文返回提取的页面块和源元数据而不需要进一步刮去，而Answers则赋予Ask Brave所使用的同样服务以权力。
复制测试和浏览器惯例
Times 称的测试产生了大量的文章文本，而不仅仅是链接或短片段。 例如，Ask Brave在得到一份贴纸的URL后，其他例子从另一篇文章中产生了近700个字，约占三分之一。 对API的LLM背景端点的单独查询从文章逐字记录中返回了1,295个字中的1,291个。
称的测试通过Ask Brave和API端点，例子包括芝加哥论坛报调查的1200多字和通过LLM背景完整返回的Orlando Sentinel文章。
这两套套装都针对浏览器的“ Paywall 屏蔽器” 设置，指称配置的浏览器复制件和显示的付费墙文章没有登录或订阅。 文件包括比较，其中另一个浏览器显示是订阅限制，而勇者号则显示文章文本。
投诉还指称，Brave删除了出版商的广告，包括订阅提示和通过Brave Ads销售的替代广告。 在《泰晤士报》的档案中
事先通知和法律声称
"泰晤士报"描述了两封给勇者CEO布伦丹·艾希(Brendan Eich)的未答信：2025年8月11日其知识产权律师的一封信，要求停止未经授权的获取和使用以及移除其知识产权，2026年4月13日外部律师的一封信，重复了这一要求。
2026年4月的信中辩称，指称的蓄意侵权应加重法定损害赔偿，每次侵权最高可达15万美元。
每项申诉带来五项罪名：直接、促成和替代侵犯版权；规避《数字千年版权法》对技术获取的控制；以及根据纽约法律不公正地致富。 访问控制计数涉及用于控制获得版权作品的付费墙和其他技术措施，而不公正的致富则侧重于所谓的广告替代。
原告寻求法定和实际损害赔偿、恢复利润、费用和律师费，以及对所指控行为的永久禁令。 两项申诉都要求所有符合条件的声称进行陪审团审判。
转载的文章文本、付费墙展示和广告替代是否构成侵权、出入控制规避或不正当致富，仍由法院根据两项申诉中提出的法律理论决定。
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Regulation
Brave Faces Two Publisher Lawsuits Over AI Use of News Content
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The New York Times Company filed a federal complaint against Brave Software on November 2, 2026, alleging unauthorized copying and distribution of its journalism through Brave’s search index, AI services and browser. The publishers of the New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune and Orlando Sentinel filed a separate complaint against Brave the same day in the Southern District of New York.
The Times alleges that Brave never obtained permission to access, copy or distribute its content and never compensated the company. Its filing identifies more than 10 million registered copyrighted works, including material from The New York Times, The Athletic, Cooking, Games and Wirecutter. The other plaintiffs are Daily News, LP; Chicago Tribune Company, LLC; and Orlando Sentinel Communications Company, LLC, whose complaint says their registered newspaper issues contain more than 2 million articles.
Search Index and AI Services
Both complaints quote Brave as saying its index contains more than 30 billion webpages, with millions of new pages added daily, and allege that the company has not disclosed its crawler’s name or provided a way for site owners to block that crawler specifically.
Ask Brave sends content copied into the index to a large language model through retrieval-augmented generation, then displays answers that the Times says can include verbatim text or detailed summaries. The process supplies external material to the model to ground its response to a user’s query.
The publishers allege that AI companies, including Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI and Cohere, pay Brave for real-time index content used to train models, ground answers to user queries, or both.
The Brave Search application programming interface (API) includes endpoints called News Search, Web Search, LLM Context and Answers. According to Brave documentation quoted in the complaints, LLM Context returns extracted page chunks and source metadata without requiring further scraping, while Answers powers the same service used by Ask Brave.
Reproduction Tests and Browser Practices
The Times says its tests produced extensive article text rather than only links or short snippets. In one example, Ask Brave returned more than 400 words verbatim after being given a paywalled article’s URL and then asked for the full text. Other examples produced nearly 700 words from another article and approximately 87% of a third. A separate query to the API’s LLM Context endpoint returned 1,291 of 1,295 words from an article verbatim.
The publishers’ complaint says their tests produced extensive Daily News, Chicago Tribune and Orlando Sentinel text through Ask Brave and API endpoints. Examples include more than 1,200 words from a Chicago Tribune investigation and an Orlando Sentinel article returned in full through LLM Context.
Both suits target the browser’s “Paywall blocker” setting, alleging that the configured browser copies and displays paywalled articles without a login or subscription. The filings include comparisons in which another browser shows a subscription restriction while Brave displays article text.
The complaints also allege that Brave removes publisher advertising, including subscription prompts, and substitutes advertising sold through Brave Ads. The Times’ filing includes a comparison in which a subscription banner visible in Google Chrome is absent in Brave.
Prior Notice and Legal Claims
The Times describes two unanswered letters to Brave CEO Brendan Eich: an August 11, 2025 letter from its intellectual-property counsel demanding an end to unauthorized access and use and removal of its intellectual property, and an April 13, 2026 letter from outside counsel repeating the demand.
The April 2026 letter argued that the alleged willful infringement warranted enhanced statutory damages of up to $150,000 per infringement.
Each complaint brings five counts: direct, contributory and vicarious copyright infringement; circumvention of technological access controls under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act; and unjust enrichment under New York law. The access-control count concerns paywalls and other technological measures used to control access to copyrighted works, while unjust enrichment focuses on the alleged advertising substitution.
The plaintiffs seek statutory and actual damages, restitution of profits, costs and attorneys’ fees, and permanent injunctions against the alleged conduct. Both complaints demand jury trials for all claims eligible for them.
Whether the reproduced article text, paywall displays and advertising substitution amount to infringement, access-control circumvention or unjust enrichment remains for the court to decide under the legal theories presented in the two complaints.
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