"Imagine a friend borrows your car for a week. He promises to bring it back clean and full of gas. Reasonable enough, until you discover he racked up 1,500 miles because, while he wasn't using it, he let his cousin run Uber shifts with it and pocketed a cut of the fares. You didn't agree to that. You agreed to one driver, one purpose."
"CoStar, one of the largest real estate data companies in the world, spent years building "the world's largest real estate image library," according to the company's lawsuit against Zillow. It hired thousands of photographers, watermarked the resulting images, and licenses them under terms that restrict use to authorized platforms. Yet, according to CoStar's lawsuit, nearly 47,000 images ended up on Zillow, often with the CoStar watermark obscured or compromised. Zillow has already started to remove the offending images but otherwise hasn't responded to the lawsuit."
CoStar built a vast real estate image library by hiring thousands of photographers, watermarking images, and licensing them for authorized platforms. Nearly 47,000 CoStar images allegedly appeared on Zillow with watermarks obscured or compromised. CoStar alleges conversion and unauthorized commercial use that deprived owners of control and revenue, and seeks nearly $7 billion in alleged damages. Zillow has begun removing some images but has not otherwise responded. Zillow may invoke the DMCA safe-harbor, which shields platforms for user-uploaded infringement if they act in good faith, do not directly profit, and promptly remove infringing content when notified.
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