Key West Association Wins Federal Copyright Case
“A federal district court in Florida has awarded $2.7 million to the Key West Association of REALTORS® Inc. in its copyright infringement action against Robert Allen. In finding for the association and imposing such a large award, the court sent a strong message on behalf of copyright owners, said Attorney Steven Robert Kozlowski, who represented KWAR in the case.”
Big win and a great precedent for the Neighborcity case.
Here’s a link to the judgement: http://www.rqd.com/kwar.pdf
and here’s an example of the infringing site:
http://web.archive.org/web/20110207040345/http://keywestmls.com/keywestflhomes/newtown/
Notice at the very top of the page his “disclaimer”.
Sometimes the copyright suit is easy compared to the collection process. I’m curious to see how far KWAR goes to collect.