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Real Estate/Development

Jun. 6, 2023

Real estate copyright battle revived in LA

“CoStar’s allegation that a small circular logo, which it often applies to photos it doesn’t own, constitutes copyright notice … won’t survive on summary judgment or at trial,” said an attorney for Commercial Real Estate Exchange Inc.

A federal judge revived claims of copyright infringement, dismissed in 2021, in a lawsuit between real estate groups CoStar Group Inc. and Commercial Real Estate Exchange Inc., also known as CREXi.

Attorneys for CoStar at Latham & Watkins LLP alleged that, in violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, unlawfully cropped out CoStar’s logo from images associated with online property listings before reuploading the content to CREX...

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