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Drew Meyers
February 5, 2013 at 8:15 pm
Brilliant strategic move. And product offering.
Jack Cassedy
February 6, 2013 at 10:56 am
I agree. Who doesn’t love Houzz? Who doesn’t love Pinterest? I wonder if they will run into some of the same legal issues as Pinterest regarding image copyrights.
Robert Drummer
February 6, 2013 at 4:30 pm
For anyone wondering why Zillow needed an “irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide license to (a) use, copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display….your Submission(s)…. (ad infinitum), now you know.
They have monetized the images from REALTOR® listings. You (or your broker or your MLS) signed away the rights, copyrights, etc. when you gave them the listing. You can’t blame them for creating this tool. They make money, you get attribution. Well, no, you don’t. You get nothing. It would’ve been nice if they included a link back to the broker/agent/MLS that supplied the photo, but no.
Will the professional photographers who took the picture have an issue with their images on Digs? I hope not, ’cause if they do, they’ll be looking at you for a licensing fee or worse, a copyright claim.
This is a perfect example of what an MLS could’ve done, or a group of MLSs (CMLS) but everyone’s been convinced that the data genie can’t be put back into the bottle.