It's interesting that the information of which you speak of in B.C., is subject to Copyright and yet the Competition Bureau doesn't acknowledge
a Board like TREB is entitled to any similar claimed Copyrights.
Not exact matches
1) Centris will leave CREA asap 2)
TREB like all
boards has told CREA NO to their mls system servers and any hopes CREA held onto that realtor.ca would become a single national mls system has ended.
It is
like the Competition Bureau has a personal vendetta against
TREB and other real estate
boards across Canada.
These integrations, along with pre-programmed electronic form integration from both
TREB and the Ontario Real Estate
Board, will eliminate the need for duplicate data entry in multiple systems, «helping members accelerate essential tasks in their transaction workflow,
like adding listings and filling out forms,» the company says.
«Even when
TREB and the other
boards enable their brokerage members to efficiently access their MLS, a number of significant challenges remain if a company wants to create a national real estate portal
like Zillow has for the United States or ViewPoint for Nova Scotia.
3)
TREB like all
boards in Canada passed by - law revisions after 2010 changing the copyright rules based on input from the Franchise brands in order to facilitate the DDF.
Sadly the
Boards other than
TREB sat back and waited for the chips to fall where they may
like sheep being led to slaughter.
TREB,
like most
Boards, has never publicly marketed their collective listings uniquely in a «
Board» sense.
If
TREB and other
boards stop sending their listings to realtor.ca than realtor.ca will become just
like any other fsbo website.