9th Cir.;
15-15106

The court of appeals affirmed a judgment. The court held that the transferee of a nonexclusive license in photographs did not have standing to sue for copyright infringement.

DRK Photo is a stock photography agency that markets and licenses images created by others to publishing entities, including McGraw-Hill Global Education Holdings, LLC and McGraw-Hill School Education Holdings, LLC. From approximately 1992 to 2009, McGraw-Hill licensed photographs from DRK to use in its textbooks. In 2012, DRK sued McGraw-Hill for copyright infringement, alleging that it exceeded the scope of its licenses with DRK by printing and distributing more textbooks containing licensed images than authorized. DRK alleged 1,120 infringing uses of some 636 photographs.