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Aerial view of New York City, with Twin Towers of the World Trade Center visible

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Aerial view of New York City, with the World Trade Center Twin Towers prominent

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Aerial view of New York City, in which the World Trade Center Twin Towers is prominent

Aerial view of New York City, in which the World Trade Center Twin Towers is prominent

Aerial view of New York City, in which the World Trade Center Twin Towers is prominent

Aerial view of New York City, in which the World Trade Center Twin Towers is prominent

Aerial view of New York City, in which the World Trade Center Twin Towers is prominent

Aerial view of New York City, in which the World Trade Center Twin Towers is prominent

Aerial view of New York City, in which the World Trade Center Twin Towers is prominent

Aerial view of New York City, in which the World Trade Center Twin Towers is prominent

Aerial view of New York City, in which the World Trade Center Twin Towers is prominent

[Aerial view of New York City, in which the World Trade Center Twin Towers is prominent]

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Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images.

Title from LC-DIG-highsm-14398.

Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2011; (DLC/PP-2011:124).

Forms part of the Selects Series in 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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01/01/1980
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Highsmith, Carol M., 1946-, photographer
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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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Just about every New York City adult, and millions more nationwide who watch crime stories on American television, has heard of Rikers Island. It's the vast city's main jail complex in the middle of the East River. This photo of a lovely house and grounds was obviously taken elsewhere . . . at the home in the city's Queens borough whose original owner, Dutch immigrant Abraham Rycken Van Lent, whose family name would be americanized as "Riker", also owned the island that would one day hold the notorious jail

Statue and skylight inside the Rush Rhys Library, the main academic library of the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York

Muffler shop in the Willets Point neighborhood of New York City's borough, or county-like jurisdiction, of Queens

Prominent features of a northern tour. Written from a brief diary, kept in travelling from Charleston, S. C. to, and through Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New-Hampshire, Vermont, Lower and Upper Canada, New York, Maine, North-Carolina, South Carolina, and back to Charleston again, Commencing on the 12th of June, 1821, and terminating the 12th of November following.

Historic Chinatown in San Francisco, California

Architectural details, the Woolworth Building, New York, New York

Carol M. Highsmith - The Pittock Mansion, Portland, Oregon

Scene in Negro section of Chicago, Illinois

Scene along Northern Boulevard in the Flushing neighborhood of the New York City borough (or county-like juristiction) of Queens

Carousel horses in their enclosure in Endicott, New York, West Endicott Park

Prominent features of a northern tour. Written from a brief diary, kept in travelling from Charleston, S. C. to, and through Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New-Hampshire, Vermont, Lower and Upper Canada, New York, Maine, North-Carolina, South Carolina, and back to Charleston again, Commencing on the 12th of June, 1821, and terminating the 12th of November following.

Fresco painting "Explorer Block" located in rotunda, Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, New York, New York

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