Stock Photo Agency, Photographs, Compilation, copyright

Stock Photo Agency Need Not List All Photographs in Its Compilation | McDermott Will & Emery - JDSupra: " . . . There has been a spate of disputes between photographers and stock photo agencies against textbook publishers in which publishers are alleged to have used images beyond the scope of the applicable license.  In this case the district court cited § 409 in dismissing a complaint filed by Alaska Stock against publisher Houghton Mifflin, concluding that compilation applications for copyright must list all authors.  Alaska Stock appealed. In the appeal, the Copyright Office submitted an amicus brief, in which it took the position that § 409 did not require identification of the authors of all the individual works included in a compilation.  Rather the Copyright Office explained that for over 30 years it has interpreted § 409 as requiring only that the author of the collective work, not the individual authors of the separate works, be included in the application...." (read more at the link above)

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