Zillow Ordered to Pay Photography Company $2 Million in Copyright Infringement Case

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling ordering Zillow to pay VHT Studios, a real estate photography company, roughly $2 million in damages for copyright infringement, after Zillow displayed thousands of VHT’s photos on its website.

This will be the final ruling in the legal battle, which began over eight years ago, unless the parties decide to take the case to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Originally filed in July 2015, the lawsuit alleges that Zillow took VHT’s intellectual property by illegal using its photos on Zillow’s home improvement website, Zillow Digs. When the lawsuit was initially filed, VHT said over 75,000 of its photos were on the Zillow Digs webpage.

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