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Auguste Rodin sculptures on the grounds of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in California

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Auguste Rodin sculptures on the grounds of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in California

Auguste Rodin sculptures on the grounds of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in California

Auguste Rodin sculpture at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in California

Auguste Rodin sculptures on the grounds of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in California

Auguste Rodin sculptures on the grounds of the Los Angeles County Museum in California

Auguste Rodin sculptures on the grounds of the Los Angeles County Museum in California

California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California

An original cast of Auguste Rodin's "The Thinker" welcomes visitors to the California Palace of the Legion of Honor art museum, San Francisco, California

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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.

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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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San Francisco, California, United States ,  37.77507, -122.41907
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Library of Congress
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Coast Guard women honor World War heroes of U.S. Coast Guard. The members of the United States Coast Guard who gave their lives duing the World War were singally honored in Washington today by the League of Coast Guard Women when they journeyed to Arlington National Cemetery to place a wreath on the Coast Guard Memorial. Mrs I.W. Buckalow, of Sault Ste Marie, Michigan, is shown placing the wreath Delegates from the various units of the League of Coast Guard Women in all parts of the country are also shown in the photograph

Untitled box-like art, sometimes called "Judd's cubes," by "Minimalist" artist Donald Judd, though he detested the "minimalist" description, on the grounds of the Chinati Foundation, or La Fundacion Chinati, a contemporary art museum in Marfa, a surprisingly sophisticated town in the Texas high desert

Industrial exposition, 1926, Am. Legion

Dance of Sioux Indians of Pine Ridge Agency, performed in honor of Pres. Coolidge

Untitled box-like art, sometimes called "Judd's cubes," by "Minimalist" artist Donald Judd, though he detested the "minimalist" description, on the grounds of the Chinati Foundation, or La Fundacion Chinati, a contemporary art museum in Marfa, a surprisingly sophisticated town in the Texas high desert

Auguste Rodin sculptures on the grounds of the Los Angeles County Museum in California

The Bridge of Honor, commonly known as the Pomeroy-Mason Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge over the Ohio River between Pomeroy, Ohio and Mason, West Virginia

The great Bartholdi statue, liberty enlightening the world: the gift of France to the American people

This photograph shows opposite side of Norris visitors' building described under K 1868 (above) where the central hall abuts the overlook terrace. Side doors give access to refreshment stand and cooperative store permitting the service of refreshments to visitors on the terrace

[White House visitors, Washington, D.C.]

Large Arch by sculptor Henry Moore. Columbus, Indiana

New York. Bartholdi "Statue of Liberty," erected on Bedloe's Island, in New York Harbor

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