Masterfile did not pay the correct fee to register each image separately. They evaded the US Copyright Office by using a loophole in the application to avoid payment of a proper fee for the copyright registration depriving US Copyright Office of their deserved revenues. They now utilize another loophole to abuse the US Copyright Law in order to generate most if not all of their revenue from the extortions.
Unless someone infringes all of the images at once from the CD compilation as registered and appropriately paid for, there should technically be no infringement if only few images from the compilation are infringed. Well...it makes no sense, therefore the entire registration should be invalidated. They should be forced to re-register all of their images and pay the appropriate fee for it instead of trying to cut corners by registering them all at once in a compilation
Evading payment of the correct registration fee should give a strong reason to invalidate their registrations.
Unless someone infringes all of the images at once from the CD compilation as registered and appropriately paid for, there should technically be no infringement if only few images from the compilation are infringed. Well...it makes no sense, therefore the entire registration should be invalidated. They should be forced to re-register all of their images and pay the appropriate fee for it instead of trying to cut corners by registering them all at once in a compilation
Evading payment of the correct registration fee should give a strong reason to invalidate their registrations.