CoStar Adds 1,000s of Photos to Copyright Suit Against Rival (1)

Real estate information provider CoStar Group Inc. upped the ante in its copyright lawsuit against a rival, quintupling the number of photographs it says Commercial Real Estate Exchange Inc. illegally copied.

CoStar asked a Los Angeles federal court for leave to file a second amended complaint late Monday, claiming that CREXi copied, displayed, or reproduced more than 50,000 CoStar-copyrighted photographs without permission. CoStar said that more than half of the infringement occurred after the company originally brought the suit.

CREXi’s infringement is international in nature, according to the new complaint, with much of the theft conducted by agents in ...