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Case Information
Case name Brave Software Inc v. News Corp[1]
Court U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California[1]
Docket 4:26-cv-04758-JST[1]
Filed May 19, 2026[1]
Judge(s) Jon S. Tigar[1]
Plaintiffs Brave Software, Inc.[1]
Defendants News Corporation; Dow Jones & Co., Inc.; NYP Holdings, Inc.; News Corp UK & Ireland Limited; News Pty Limited[1]
Case type Civil declaratory-judgment action with counterclaims[1]
Claims / issues Copyright noninfringement, copyright misuse and contract declarations; publishers’ copyright and related counterclaims[1]
Status July 22, 2026: News Corp, Dow Jones and NYP Holdings answered; Dow Jones and NYP Holdings asserted counterclaims. Later developments have not been verified.[1]

Brave Software, Inc. v. News Corp is a federal copyright and declaratory-judgment dispute concerning Brave’s collection and distribution of publisher content for search and artificial-intelligence customers.[2][3]

Background

Brave filed the action in March 2025 after News Corp sent a cease-and-desist letter, asking the court to declare that Brave’s practices did not infringe copyright.[2][3] News Corp publications implicated in the dispute include the Wall Street Journal and New York Post.[2]

Counterclaims

News Corp filed counterclaims on July 21, 2026, alleging that Brave covertly scraped copyrighted articles and resold or distributed versions of the content to AI companies without authorization.[2][3] News Corp contends that the conduct falls outside fair use and reduces AI companies’ incentives to license publishers’ work.[2] It seeks injunctive relief, unspecified monetary damages, and statutory damages of up to $150,000 for each infringement.[2][3] Brave had not publicly responded to the counterclaims when the cited report was published.[2]

Significance

The dispute is part of litigation over whether technology companies may collect and commercialize publisher content for AI-related products without licenses.[2]

See Also

References

  1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 Court filing / case record, reviewed September 7, 2026
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 SRN News/Reuters, "News Corp countersues Brave for allegedly ‘scraping’ articles for AI" (July 22, 2026)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Crypto Briefing, "News Corp countersues Brave for allegedly scraping articles to feed AI models" (July 22, 2026)
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