Who Can Claim Copyright

Hi, I'm creating a book for a person's church. It contains a history of the area with stories from church members and pictures.

The gentleman wants to have the pub page read "copyright(c)People at Church", rather than his name.

My question is: Can he put the copyright under "People at and the name of church" legally. will the copyright office accept that?
I was under the impression it needed to be a person, or a person listing the contribution of others, or at least an entity, such as
a corporation.

I would appreciate any help you can give me so I can inform my client properly.

Thank you in advance for your help.

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I believe the same rules would apply to this as apply to naming legal entities such as businesses in that you have to either list the real and true names of all of the parties in the name or you have to register an assumed business name. If the church has an assumed business name and all of the people are members, I would just have the church hold the copyright.

Thank you so much. This helps on how to proceed.

Have a nice day.

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