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, was a United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit case in which a court held two issues: # The copyright owner of a collective work, such as an automated database, was not required by a pre-suit copyright registration requirement to identify names of creators and titles of individual work. # By clicking yes to the term of use and uploading photograph, is sufficient to writing component in assignment of right under == Background == Metropolitan Regional Information Systems Inc. ("MRIS") operates an online multiple listing service which provides property listings and related information to its subscribers, real estate broker and agent. In order to upload their real estate to MRIS database, subscribers have to click "yes" to MRIS Terms of Use Agreement ("TOU") that assigns copyright in each photographs to MRIS.〔 MRIS registers the database every quarter with the U.S. Copyright Office pursuant to the rules for an automated database. As the basis for each quarterly application, MRIS typically describes the material as “daily updated and revised text and images and new text and images,” but does not name or describe individual photos. American Home Realty Network ("AHRN") operates NeighborCity.com, a national real estate search engine and referral business. The site gets its information, among others, by scraping information from the MRIS Database.〔 After failure to make a licensing agreement, MRIS field suit against AHRN and its CEO for copyright infringement and sought for a preliminary injunction. The district court granted a preliminary injunction in the use of MRIS's photographs. AHRN appealed based on two reasons: # MRIS failed to register its copyright in the individual photographs; # By clicking "yes" to TOU, subscribers did not transfer their copyright in the photographs to MRIS.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Metropolitan Regional Information System, Inc. v. American Home Realty Network, Inc.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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