CoStar Sues Longtime Competitor Xceligent, Alleging Data Theft
[{"id": "db68zol", "text": " non pay wall link?", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "db6nwuz", "text": "not shocking, co-star has even been known to sue the very own brokerage firms that pay them for data theft.  ie agent uploads photo of building that they took to co-star and to the local MLS.  The photo becomes Co-star's property upon uploading, and then they sue the agent's brokerage and the MLS for using their photo.", "replies": [{"id": "db6sheh", "text": "I don't think that's true. Costar pays photographers to take their own pictures for its platform.  brokers shouldn't be able to  use it in other sites that compete with costar", "replies": [{"id": "db883c0", "text": "It's different in every market", "replies": [], "depth": 3}, {"id": "db8kaia", "text": "that makes more sense if you are ripping off pictures they took.  If the claim is they are going after brokers for uploading their own pic to multiple places I find that far fetched", "replies": [], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}, {"id": "db8k83b", "text": "you have a source on that?  I've never heard of that and I don't know any broker that takes costar specific photos because of this.  I certainly post the same marketing pictures across a number of sites and have had 0 problems.", "replies": [], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}]