February 27, 2023
A Ninth Circuit judge on Monday called out attorneys for spending too much time parsing each word in a previous court opinion in a copyright dispute over the use of real estate photographs on Zillow's website and said they were sidestepping the "$100 million question": Are the infringed photos part of a compilation subject to a single statutory damages award?
January 27, 2022
Zillow has convinced a Washington federal court to trim a damages award against it to $1.9 million in a copyright dispute over the use of real estate photographs on its website, a considerable reduction from the $8 million it was initially supposed to pay.
March 11, 2021
Zillow will face a new trial on claims it infringed 2,700 real estate photographs, according to a Wednesday ruling that also wiped out $4 million in related damages.
June 21, 2017
A Washington federal judge Tuesday cut a real estate photography company's $8.3 million copyright infringement award against real estate website Zillow in half, saying there was insufficient evidence anyone saw the vast majority of the photos.
March 23, 2017
Real estate website Zillow on Wednesday claimed a jury erred last month when it gave a real estate photography company more than $8.3 million for its copyright violation claims against Zillow, saying it could not be held liable for images that were handled entirely by automatic systems.
February 13, 2017
A Washington federal jury has awarded a real estate photography company more than $8.3 million for its claim that real estate website Zillow used thousands of its photos without permission.