Many MLSs are expanding the data they permit to be displayed in IDX – including off-market statuses and fields they previously excluded. This is in response, in part, to the arrival of VOWs and to … Read more about Online Contracting: Extending legal rights over data pirates?
Issues for MLSs to Consider Before Licensing Their Data to Third Party Vendors
Recently, some major players in the industry, including CoreLogic (formerly First American), Move, Inc., and NAR’s subsidiary RPR, have offered an exchange to MLSs: access to software/interface tools … Read more about Issues for MLSs to Consider Before Licensing Their Data to Third Party Vendors
Why MLSs should pursue their own top-level domain: .MLS
(Disclaimer: My company is doing work on a variety of fronts for MLS Domains Association, the group formed by 15 leading MLSs to seek a new top-level domain, .MLS, in the Internet, for use only by … Read more about Why MLSs should pursue their own top-level domain: .MLS
Pinning Down the RPR Strategic Proposition
4/26/10 SEE IMPORTANT UPDATES BELOW (Based on follow up email we received from RPR today. Look for additions and deletions.)For the last two months, MLS execs and brokers have frequently asked me, … Read more about Pinning Down the RPR Strategic Proposition
NAR: 1994 Called, and it Wants its Photo Policy Back!
OK, before you criticize my choice of title ("Hey, Brian! 2003 called, and it wants its snarky remark template back!"), hear me out.The Council of MLSs wrote a letter to NAR earlier this month … Read more about NAR: 1994 Called, and it Wants its Photo Policy Back!
MLS Domains Association Formed
After about five months of work with almost 20 of the leading MLSs in the U.S., we're really excited to announce the formation of the MLS Domains Association. You can see the press release on the … Read more about MLS Domains Association Formed
RPR MLS License-What RPR can do with data
This post continues the more detailed look at the RPR agreement that we began last week. We are still referring to “Version 2010.01.22” of the agreement. In this post, we’ll consider what uses RPR … Read more about RPR MLS License-What RPR can do with data
Copyrights in facts and copyright licenses: Copyrights in MLS listing content Part II
As I explained in my last post, ownership in the copyrights in the data content in an MLS is 'scattered' in most MLSs: The MLS (or perhaps its MLS vendor or both jointly) owns the copyright in the … Read more about Copyrights in facts and copyright licenses: Copyrights in MLS listing content Part II
MLS exec comments on RPR and its license agreement
(BNL Note: This post comes from the CEO of a Medium/Large MLS. Like all posts of this kind, views expressed here are those of that author, not necessarily of our companies or our clients.) Dale Ross … Read more about MLS exec comments on RPR and its license agreement
Brokers’ rights to control uses of their data and the RPR license agreement
Elizabeth has begun a series of posts about copyrights in MLS content. I believe another in that series is coming out tomorrow.With this post, I want to point out another basis of rights in listing … Read more about Brokers’ rights to control uses of their data and the RPR license agreement
Text of the RPR agreement and ‘public debate’
RPR has so far refused to post the text of the RPR MLS Content License Agreement online. RPR’s president Marty Frame said (in a comment to a previous post about the agreement) that he hoped more of … Read more about Text of the RPR agreement and ‘public debate’
Broker comment on RPR
The following comes from George Percel, a Florida broker and former association/MLS manager. I offered to share it with MLSTesseract readers. (I added the links to his text. Like all posts of this … Read more about Broker comment on RPR