Real estate news company CoStar claims Zillow has neglected to remove thousands of photos at the heart of a copyright infringement lawsuit filed over the summer and has subsequently used thousands more photos without permission, reports Meghan Roos of RealEstateNews.com.
Roos writes, “The parent company of Homes.com claimed in a July 30 lawsuit that Zillow was using more than 46,000 CoStar images, primarily for multifamily rental listings. At the time, CoStar said the home search giant’s alleged activity amounted to ‘one of the largest, if not the largest, image infringement cases in history.’
“Two months later, ‘Zillow brazenly continues to display thousands of copyrighted and watermarked CoStar Group photographs and distribute them to its partners Redfin and Realtor.com,’ CoStar said in a Sept. 30 press release.
“Of the nearly 47,000 CoStar watermarked images flagged in the July 30 complaint, Zillow has yet to remove about 8,000, according to CoStar.
“Zillow has also displayed 4,618 additional images owned by CoStar in the months since the lawsuit was filed, CoStar claims.”
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