CoStar Sues Zillow; LGBTQ+ Alliance Wins Court Battle for Accounts — RISMedia
By: Clarissa Garza | Published: 2025-08-04 19:03:00 | Source: www.rismedia.com
Editor’s note: The COURT REPORT is RISMedia’s weekly look at current and upcoming lawsuits, investigations and other legal developments around real estate.
CoStar sues Zillow over copyright infringement
CoStar Group, on July 30, sued Zillow over alleged “widespread and systematic” copyright infringement of rental listing photos.
“Zillow’s theft of tens of thousands of CoStar Group’s copyrighted photographs is nothing short of outrageous,” said CoStar Group founder and CEO Andy Florance in a statement. “Zillow is profiting from decades of CoStar Group work and the billions of dollars we have invested.”
The filing also claims that Redfin and Realtor.com® used these same images by way of “lucrative syndication agreements,”…
