In a victory for stock photography agencies, the Ninth Circuit ruled this month that applicants seeking to register compilations of photographs with the Copyright Office do not need to name each individual author. The Fourth Circuit recently reached the same conclusion in a case involving a real estate listing service.
Alaska Stock, LLC v. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Co. involved the stock photography agency Alaska Stock, which registered large numbers of images at a time, but...
