[rewrew]

So much in here is interesting (and right), but the best part I think comes at the end: Zillow doesn't own the images. So whether or not you there's a legal argument for fair use, Zillow has absolutely no right to file a copyright case in the first place because they don't own the images. As the EFF rightly points out, there is no "super copyright" that Zillow can exercise here. Really good stuff overall on fair use, but love that nice whopper at the end.

[pyre]

The "super copyright" comment has less to do with their ownership of the copyright, and more to do with the rest of the context about the owners not being able to exert copyright claims due to fair use. (This of course is predicated on the assertion that the usage does fall under fair use.) The "super copyright" comment is alluding to Zillow attempting to assert something that even the original owners cannot (i.e. a "superset" of copyright rights).