When Zillow sent Kate Wagner, the 23-year-old behind the popular blog McMansion Hell, a cease and desist letter this week, the real estate listing company gave her until the end of today to delete photos obtained from Zillow from her website. It’s nearing the deadline and Wagner’s blog is back up, all photos remained, and Zillow has agreed to instead back away from a potential lawsuit.
Here’s the TL;DR of what happened: on Monday, Zillow sent a letter to Wagner claiming her use of Zillow photos to illustrate bad architecture was in violation of copyright laws and did not apply under fair use. We contacted Zillow and the company admitted it technically doesn’t “own the photos” it claims to have copyright over. Just about every law expert...
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https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/29/15896146/zillow-will-not-sue-mcmansion-hell-blog
from
http://ifeeltechinc.blogspot.com/2017/06/zillow-ends-its-dumb-legal-crusade.html
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