The New York Times filed a lawsuit Monday against Brave, the privacy-focused browser company founded in 2015, alleging that Brave scraped copyrighted content and unlawfully distributed it to AI companies named as Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI, and Cohere. The complaint, brought in federal court in Manhattan, describes Brave as a “supplier, dealer, and distributor of stolen copyrighted content” for AI companies.

Separately on Monday, the Daily News, the Chicago Tribune, and the Orlando Sentinel filed a similar lawsuit. The Times also notes that it has sued OpenAI and Perplexity over similar claims. The suit says Brave built an index of more than 30 billion webpages using an unidentified crawler, leaving publishers unable to block it, and it targets a Brave browser feature that bypasses paywalls as well as the company’s practice of blocking publishers’ ads while selling its own.

The Times seeks an injunction and damages. Brave did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Private-market trackers cited in the article report that Brave has raised roughly $250 million to date.