visibility Similar

code Related

A motorcylist pulls a float past the White Wolf Saloon in Douglas, Wyoming, during the Wyoming State Fair's annual kickoff parade

description

Summary

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.

Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13).

Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

In 2015, documentary photographer Carol Highsmith received a letter from Getty Images accusing her of copyright infringement for featuring one of her own photographs on her own website. It demanded payment of $120. This was how Highsmith came to learn that stock photo agencies Getty and Alamy had been sending similar threat letters and charging fees to users of her images, which she had donated to the Library of Congress for use by the general public at no charge. In 2016, Highsmith has filed a $1 billion copyright infringement suit against both Alamy and Getty stating “gross misuse” of 18,755 of her photographs. “The defendants [Getty Images] have apparently misappropriated Ms. Highsmith’s generous gift to the American people,” the complaint reads. “[They] are not only unlawfully charging licensing fees … but are falsely and fraudulently holding themselves out as the exclusive copyright owner.” According to the lawsuit, Getty and Alamy, on their websites, have been selling licenses for thousands of Highsmith’s photographs, many without her name attached to them and stamped with “false watermarks.” (more: http://hyperallergic.com/314079/photographer-files-1-billion-suit-against-getty-for-licensing-her-public-domain-images/)

label_outline

Tags

wyoming douglas white wolf saloon wyoming state fair wyoming state fair parade digital photographs carol m highsmith photo drawing state fair kickoff parade high resolution carol m highsmith america color photography parade library of congress car
date_range

Date

01/01/2015
collections

in collections

Carol Highsmith, Library of Congress Collection

In 2016, Carol Highsmith has filed a $1 billion copyright infringement suit against both Alamy and Getty stating “gross misuse” of 18,755 of her photographs.
place

Location

douglas
create

Source

Library of Congress
link

Link

https://www.loc.gov/
copyright

Copyright info

No known restrictions on publication.

label_outline Explore Wyoming State Fair Parade, Kickoff Parade, White Wolf Saloon

A group of people riding in a horse drawn carriage Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information photo.

Overview of the rugged surrounding terrain from a long plateau from north of Rock Springs westward to the city of Green River in Sweetwater County, Wyoming. The plateau carries the Pilot Butte Wild Horse Loop, a scenic drive where one can always see the butte and sometimes see the nomadic horses

Scenery in Big Bend National Park, Texas

An artistic rock carving that highlights the many pictographs by native peoples found among the rocks in surrounding Terrell County, in the "Trans-Pecos" region of southwest Texas

Yellowstone Roads & Bridges, Lake, Teton County, WY

A beautiful valley along the dirt Alpine Loop, winding high into the San Juan Mountains above Silverton, Colorado

Scene from one of the almost-daily parades through downtown Cheyenne during the annual Cheyenne Frontier Days celebration in the Wyoming capital

South Pass (two nearby passes, really) formed the most-traveled and most-trusted low valley through the fearsome Rocky Mountains for 19th-Century westward emigrants on the Oregon, Mormon, and California trails, which followed much the same route to this point and beyond before diverging, as well as Pony Express riders

Desolate view of the Utah desert from an Interstate highway

Teton Range, Wy, William Henry Jackson photograph

A palm tree amid a field of like trees in Death Valley National Park

Scene from the "Battle of Flowers" parade, part of the monthlong Fiesta San Antonio celebration in Texas

Topics

wyoming douglas white wolf saloon wyoming state fair wyoming state fair parade digital photographs carol m highsmith photo drawing state fair kickoff parade high resolution carol m highsmith america color photography parade library of congress car