{"id":232,"date":"2006-08-22T08:41:15","date_gmt":"2006-08-22T15:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=232"},"modified":"2006-08-22T09:00:04","modified_gmt":"2006-08-22T16:00:04","slug":"if-the-cute-little-baby-wants-to-chew-up-your-copyrights-who-are-you-to-complain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/232\/if-the-cute-little-baby-wants-to-chew-up-your-copyrights-who-are-you-to-complain\/","title":{"rendered":"If the cute little baby wants to chew up your copyrights, who are you to complain?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marlow Harris at 360Digest has an incisive post about the incipient conflict between copyright-holding brokers and national dot.com real estate listing aggregators<\/a>:<\/p>\n

But what does the agent do who has signed a TOS Agreement with their broker indicating that the Broker owns the listings and the broker does not want their listings advertised on Trulia? Z57, Advanced Access, Number 1 Agent and many more website developers have submitted their feed to Trulia, to allow them to display their listings, in violation of many of these individual agents TOS agreements. Winderemere, J.L. Scott, Coldwell Banker Bain, and many other local and national companies have NOT authorized their listings to appear on Trulia, but they do, under the auspices and with the consent of these website developers, but not the agent’s brokers.<\/p>\n

Trulia dilemma for everyone involved.<\/p>\n

It’s a plus for individual agents as all leads are sent directly to them. But it’s an unauthorized use of listings. Most of these website designers provide an opt-out box if the individual agents want to do so, but how many even know it’s there?<\/p>\n

As more individual brokerages realize that their listings are being shown on this (and other similar portal sites) without their permission, I wonder if they will be more persistent in enforcing their copyright.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The other end of this conflict is that the seller has the reasonable right to expect that the broker will promote the listing by all available means. And in the case of feeds generated by web-site vendors, it’s hard to complain about the onerous burdens imposed by those feeds being automatic and free.<\/p>\n

But Marlow’s larger point stands. An MLS is a club composed of self-selected, dues-paying members. Its lawful existence should<\/i> be protected by the Free Association clause of the U.S. Constitution. But I agree that a real estate listing is the unique work product of the listing agent and should be protected by copyright laws.<\/p>\n

We end up with babies and bath-water, I expect. The entire Googlified model of the internet consists of stealing copyrighted material, aggregating it to draw eyes, then selling those eyes to advertisers. This is a perfect Tragedy of Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Marlow Harris at 360Digest has an incisive post about the incipient conflict between copyright-holding brokers and national dot.com real estate listing aggregators: But what does the agent do who has signed a TOS Agreement with their broker indicating that the Broker owns the listings and the broker does not want their listings advertised on Trulia? 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