Case Name: Tom BEAN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT PUBLISHING COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2014-10-17
Citations: 585 F. App'x 322
Docket Number: No. 10-16771
Parties: Tom BEAN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT PUBLISHING COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee.
Judges: Before: WALLACE, SILVERMAN, and M. SMITH, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 585
Pages: 322–322

Head Matter:
Tom BEAN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT PUBLISHING COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee.
No. 10-16771.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted Oct. 10, 2014.
Oct. 17, 2014.
Maurice Harmon, Harmon & Seidman LLC, Northampton, PA, Christopher Seid-man, Harmon & Seidman LCC, Grand Junction, CO, for Plaintiff-Appellant.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, pro se.
David J. Bodney, Peter S. Kozinets, Steptoe & Johnson, LLP Phoenix, AZ, James Russell Jackson, Esquire, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellee.
Before: WALLACE, SILVERMAN, and M. SMITH, Circuit Judges.
The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Tom Bean appeals from the dismissal of his copyright infringement action against Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. The district court held that Bean had not met 17 U.S.C. § 411(a)'s pre-suit copyright registration requirement because his photographs were improperly registered under 17 U.S.C. § 409. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291, Cosmetic Ideas, Inc. v. IAC/Interactivecorp, 606 F.3d 612, 614 (9th Cir.2010), and we VACATE the dismissal order and REMAND for further proceedings.
We recently held in a similar case, Alaska, Stock, LLC v. Houghton Mifflin Harc-ourt Publishing Company, that the registration of a compilation of photographs also registers the individual photographs within the compilation where, as here, the registrant follows Copyright Office practice and does not include the title and author of each individual photograph on the registration application. 747 F.3d 673, 685 (9th Cir.2014). Consistent with our Alaska Stock opinion's express disagreement with the district court's decision in this case, id. at 684 n. 50, we hold that the district court erred in dismissing Bean's action under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6) on the ground that his photographs were not individually registered.
VACATED and REMANDED.
Costs awarded to Appellant.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.