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ACTRIS Image Rules Petition: Anti-Trust and Bad for (the vast majorioty of) Agents
[Joe Cline] Hired their own attorney? I'm pretty sure the attorney works for Turnquist/Shiflet, therefore has no duty to the MLS, ACTRIS, or other members. So who cares if they hired their own attorney? That attorney ONLY CARES ABOUT THEIR CLIENTS.
[Joe Cline] Ok. I'm with you here
[Joe Cline] Then DON'T put 'Y' in the little field that says IDX and they will not be on the web. Voila. Your listings are yours and yours alone.
[Joe Cline] If you don't mind sharing, then what is this whole petition about? Oh, you don't mind sharing as long as all the MLS images look like this. Secondly, if you read the petition, you'll see what Cord and his attorney think "proper" credit means. The long and short of it is that Cord thinks he should get his name, email, company name, and phone number on every property page any agent has up to 25 TIMES!!!
[Joe Cline] The petition looks it was drafted with the help of the lawyer. Be aware that there are two separate issues in the petition. 1) do we want to control where syndication occurs, and 2) should we allow 25 references to the listing agent per ... more

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