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Wow Zillow, way to protect that valuable IP! If I were an employee there I would wonder why legal wasn't working on something more useful. Is there any open repository of house images (OpenStreetMaps, etc.) that could be used as a substitute in the interim?
land of the free. also, guy, why you don't just replace all photos with street view photos of the same houses?
Furthermore, Street View photos aren't necessarily any safer from a copyright claim. I think a creative lawyer might try to make the claim that you can't copyright data, and that Street View is so ubiquitous that it's data and thus not copyrightable, I'd be surprised if a court bought it (though IANAL).
Loser pays laws would help this kind of bullying.
wouldn't it make even more problematic? you risk not only lawyer fees but a fine too? maybe if the fine was % of assets, so the corporation risks 10% of assets if they lose, but that will never happen.
Funny. One of the homes they showed is in my area, and I had driven by it recently (since we're thinking about moving). And they're definitely right. It's a weird mix of horribleness. Especially the kitchen with its "update", aka let's throw in a couple of premium appliances and $2k worth of marble and call it a day. http://www.mcmansionhell.com/post/162143229176/50-states-of-... https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/19…
Could this be an approach to defend the blog? Community project to take fresh images of the same houses, make the images available to the site under a liberal license.
These images are available absolutely everywhere, on every real estate site imaginable.
https://www.webcitation.org/archive
Edit: the blog just disappeared for me. I managed to archive the last 13 pages of it in archive.is.
Also of note: Kate's twitter posts from this morning also indicate she has received threatening emails following the video[2], which is sadly not surprising.
1: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/06/26/the-u...
2: https://twitter.com/mcmansionhell/status/879422526698532865
On what grounds can they sue? Isn't this pure free speech? It looks like the only references to Zillow ever are citations that the photos come from their website http://www.mcmansionhell.com/search/zillow
http://gateway.ipfs.io/ipfs/QmeLsfKxF4dhmyX2FSGotaDPmMEqe8p3...
UPDATED HASH: http://gateway.ipfs.io/ipfs/QmUayNU49TWHMid6pSEBSKPAHsxJkTnd...
There's still a few hits going to Tumblr and fonts.gstatic.com , but all the actual content is safely inside IPFS and being served from in there. I'll let someone else rip the external calls out.