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Construction work on the restored Reading Terminal and Market, part of which became the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Construction work on the restored Reading Terminal and Market, part of which became the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Construction work on the restored Reading Terminal and Market, part of which became the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Construction work on the restored Reading Terminal and Market, part of which became the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Convention Center exhibition space nearing completion in the renovated Reading Terminal and Market, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Convention Center exhibition space nearing completion in the renovated Reading Terminal and Market, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Construction work on the Pennsylvania Convention Center portion of the reborn Reading Terminal and Market in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Summary
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images.
Photograph taken in the early 1990s.
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer.
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/)