Zillow Gets $8 Million Photo Copyright Verdict Reversed

March 15, 2019, 6:45 PM UTC

Zillow Group Inc. successfully challenged an $8 million copyright infringement verdict at the Ninth Circuit March 15.

Zillow didn’t willfully infringe the copyrights of a photo company that owned pictures posted on the site, the court ruled.

VHT is a real estate photography studio that licensed thousands of photographs to Zillow, an online real estate marketplace. Zillow used VHT’s photos on two parts of its website: its listing platform, which features photos and information about properties, and Digs, which features photos of artistically designed rooms.

VHT won a jury verdict of over $8 million against Zillow for willful copyright infringement ...

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