FC: Justice Dept targeting real estate site, homestore.com, and NAR

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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> From: dfalk () mayerbrown com
> Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 20:49:59 -0500
> Subject: Re:FC: More on Justice Dept targeting real estate site for a
> To: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
>
> Actually, the NAR is the perceived problem with homestore.com.  The NAR is
> part-owner of  homestore.com's realtor.com site, and allegedly has taken
> measures that exclude other real estate sites from access to listings.  The
> motive would be to exclude non-NAR competition and thus extend the NAR's
> dominance to the Web while protecting NAR's meatspace dominance from Web-based
> threats.  The NAR is homestore.com's lobby.

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> From: dfalk () mayerbrown com
> Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 08:27:34 -0500
> Subject: Re:FC: More on Justice Dept targeting real estate site for a
> To: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
>
> Actually, the Homestore.com investigation grows directly out of the 
> longstanding
> antitrust interest in MLS control by realtor boards.  The NAR is co-owner of
> Homestore.com, and allegedly is using the same exclusivity tactics that have
> made MLSs competitively troubling.

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> From: james_lucier () prusec com
> X-Lotus-Fromdomain: PRUDENTIAL
> To: declan () well com
> Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 20:53:02 -0400
> Subject: Re: FC: More on Justice Dept targeting real estate site for
>         antitrust
>
>
> Declan:  Here's a note I have on Techcentralstation commenting in part on
> the Realtors' database copyright ambitions.
>
> http://www.techcentralstation.com/NewsDesk.asp?FormMode=PolicyTracksArticle
> s&ID=32


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