The New York Times sues Brave Software for copyright and DMCA violations

The New York Times and several other newspaper publishers have filed lawsuits against Brave Software in federal court, alleging copyright infringement from AI search tools and web scraping, DMCA anti-circumvention violations over a paywall-blocking filter list, and unjust enrichment from ad blocking. The author argues that while publishers have a legitimate case regarding unauthorized scraping for AI training, using the DMCA to target filter lists threatens independent ad blockers, volunteer filter maintainers, and small browsers alike. Open article →