More than a dozen newspaper publishers threatened the maker of the new Brave browser with legal action if Brave Software goes ahead with plans to replace websites’ ads with its own.
“Your plan to use our content to sell your advertising is indistinguishable from a plan to steal our content to publish on your own website [emphasis in original],” lawyers for 17 publishers wrote in a letter to Brave Software’s founder and CEO, Brendan Eich.
The publishers represented more than 1,700 U.S. newspapers, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and those in the Gannett chain.
