Here are the factual allegations, as set forth in last week's long opinion by Justice Mark Hanasono, joined by Justice Anne Egerton, in Dinho v. Netflix, Inc. :

Plaintiffs' home is on a ridgeline in the Hollywood Hills. The property is guarded by a private gate and the home is not visible from any nearby street. The closest publicly accessible vantage point from which the home can be seen is 1,034 feet away….

Netflix began using a photo of plaintiffs' home in an advertisement for Buying Beverly Hills , one of its reality shows which depicts the operations of a real estate firm. The photo was taken by nonparty Ashwin Rao. Rao published the photo on Shutterstock.com (Shutterstock), "a website that allows any person with [I]nternet access to license photographs to the public for specific us

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