I dont spend any time or energy worrying about what Zillow is up to, they do their thing and I do mine.

I think it's time that we all realized the horse is out of the barn and Zillow is here to stay.

Parked and Reading.  No voting for me until I can read the story. 

Not a fan of Z that is for sure! 

UPDATE:  I read the story.  Interesting to say the least. I see it as an issue with MLS's as well and the agreement with brokers who use the MLS and allow syndication.  Is it any different than IDX Broker or other MLS data feed providers that, for a fee, pay the MLS for live data feeds?  

I'll read it but, I have to say that I'd root for pretty much anyone against the big-z...

It's not the first time they've gotten in trouble for scraping.  Zillow already owns the backend databases for many MLSs, so it's only a matter of time before they no longer need our cooperation.

Annette,

My point of view does not mean a thing to this case.  A

81 million? Get real Gutenberg.

This is a good blog topic for you.

     Even the great Lenn Harley would be impressed with 81M

      Hope he wins!

I'm with Bob, i'm not spending any energy on the subject. 

If even 40% of the agents who pay for leads from the big zero, it would put the big zero in a bad position with their shareholders.  The main source of income is from agents - to take them down is easy,  make the stakeholders angry and nervous... 

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Agents need to stop patronizing z.  It is the only way

*crosses fingers* - I do hope he wins!

Had another potential customer today saw a condo listing on Z for 105k Active. After looking it up, it had sold 7 years ago for that price as a short sale!

Well I hope Gutenberg wins but...

Copyright is so often stolen for profit - a novel is posted on free Torrent sites a day after it is released; musicians now make most of their money on live performance not records

I don't know the story but likely wouldn't be in favor of Z for a number of reasons. I'll check it out.

Interesting Times ahead

Mission is impossible.

I have never been worried about Zillow. Now if Amazon does decide to get into real estate, that would be a worry.

No way we can stop. 

I'm just in the watch and see what happens camp. -Kasey

 "it appears that Zillow … copies millions of photographs per day off of the MLS in an effort to build what they refer to as their 'Living Database of All Homes' … at the expense of creators and rights holders such as Mr. Gutenberg who depend on payment of reasonable licensing fees by those who exploit their works."

I think he's an evil genius with a good case to win. I assume because of this case, our MLS has given us the opportunity to check/uncheck if photos can be used after closing. We now have the option depending on what our photo agreement is.

Boy, I can't think of a better thing for crowd funding than for this guys attorneys fees.

Zillow has been accepted by "we the people"....Now to make our own mark

I believe Nina Hollander is correct. Z is profitable for a few quarters. It even taxt us wanting to SELL ZIP codes on FB now, another source of income.

The one which we are all affected is Redfin charging 1% commission paying photography and other things. It hard to compete since they got all huge bill boards across major freeways(at least between LA and SFO) that 1% full service or 2% listing fee with free staging, cleaning and painting kicked in. They are 24/7 team and very quick to get back to you. Wall Street questioned if they are losing their pants to get the business but they are PROFITTABLE last quarter. On CNBC they say that is the new way to run real estate business realizing not all look at the billboard and 1% "fool" servivce. So if you are driving customers around just point direction opposite  from the billboard. "What is going on there?"

This is not good for Z.  Too blatant an act.

Have never been a Z fan.

I'm having lunch with Z reps on Thursday. I'll ask what they think. 

Will never be a zillow fan.

Agents will not stop paying them becuase they are looking for easy leads that can be costly in the end. With that suit i would never use a photograpger where i only had a year to use a photo. I would take them myself at that point. With that case he will have to prove Zillow knew they were copy righted

I'll be watching to see how this pans out.

Have to check out Guttenberg. Never would vote for Zillow!