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A young bald eagle surveys the world below in the vast Wyoming portion of Yellowstone National Park. America's first national park also extends somewhat into Idaho and Montana. This bird, often depicted as a symbol of America, is (as you can see) not bald at all. The name traces to the word "piebald," used by early English settlers to America to describe the birds white head and tail feathers on an otherwise brown body

A young bald eagle surveys the world below in the vast Wyoming portion of Yellowstone National Park. America's first national park also extends somewhat into Idaho and Montana. This bird, often depicted as a symbol of America, is (as you can see) not bald at all. The name traces to the word "piebald," used by early English settlers to America to describe the birds white head and tail feathers on an otherwise brown body

A bald eagle at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs, Colorado. They are not actually bald; the name derives from an older meaning of "white headed," from the word "piebald," applied to animals of two colors: a dark, dominant one and a light, or white, one. The bald eagle fits that description

A bald eagle at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs, Colorado. They are not actually bald; the name derives from an older meaning of "white headed," from the word "piebald," applied to animals of two colors: a dark, dominant one and a light, or white, one. The bald eagle fits that description

A bald eagle surveys its surroundings high above the northernmost Wyoming reaches of Yellowstone National Park

A bald eagle surveys its surroundings in Yellowstone National Park in the western U.S. state of Wyoming

A young bald eagle peers from a tree near Jackson, Wyoming

Bald Eagle - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

This is Cheyenne, a seven-year-old female bald eagle, who appeared as part of a presentation by HawkQuest, a nonprofit environmental-education organization that employs birds of prey such as hawks, eagles, and falcons, at a Colorado Springs Native American Inter Tribal Powwow and festival in that central Colorado city

A young bald eagle surveys the world below in the vast Wyoming portion of Yellowstone National Park. America's first national park also extends somewhat into Idaho and Montana. This bird, often depicted as a symbol of America, is (as you can see) not bald at all. The name traces to the word "piebald," used by early English settlers to America to describe the birds white head and tail feathers on an otherwise brown body

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

Gift; Gates Frontiers Fund; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:069).

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

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/)

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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.
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