Are you ready for it? Realtor.com hit with Taylor Swift copyright claim
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Are you ready for it? Realtor.com hit with Taylor Swift copyright claim
"On Monday, photographer Brynn Burns, who was responsible for a portfolio of photos of the estate where Travis Kelce proposed to Taylor Swift, filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Missouri against Realtor.com's parent company Move, Inc. for allegedly using her copyrighted photos without permission. Burns also named the National Association of Realtors (NAR), which the lawsuit said did business as Realtor.com, as a defendant. However, NAR has not been involved with Realtor.com since the sale of Move to News Corp in November 2014."
"In the suit, Burns alleges that in an attempt to capitalize on the excitement surrounding Swift and Kelce's engagement, Realtor.com published pieces including impossible to find photos of the inside of Kelce's home, using Burns' images. Defendants knew these photographs belonged to Plaintiff, the complaint states. Defendants used and published these photographs without Plaintiff's permission to drive millions of people to Defendants' profitable website, Realtor.com, thinking it would be better (and cheaper) to beg forgiveness' rather than to have sought Plaintiff's permission."
"According to the complaint, Burns took the photos in 2023 and registered them with the U.S. Copyright Office in January 2024. However, copyright office records show that Burns took the photos in September 2022, prior to Kelce even purchasing the home. Burns claims that by publishing her photos, Realtor.com made them useless. Prior to using the photos in the post in question, Realtor.com has licensed Burns' photos for a little over a year, starting in December 2023."
Brynn Burns filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Missouri against Move, Inc., parent of Realtor.com, and named the National Association of Realtors. She claims Move and Realtor.com used her copyrighted photos of the estate where Travis Kelce proposed to Taylor Swift without permission to drive traffic and profits. Burns contends the defendants knew the photographs belonged to her and chose to publish them rather than seek permission. Burns registered the images with the U.S. Copyright Office in January 2024, though copyright records indicate she took them in September 2022. She says the publication rendered the photos unsellable or unlicensable locally.
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