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Rick Hall, founder of FAME Recording Studios, sitting in the FAME studio in Muscle Shoals, Alabama

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Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

Gift; George F. Landegger; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:090).

Forms part of the George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project 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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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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Muscle Shoals (Ala.) ,  34.74472, -87.66750
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Aaron Copland by candlelight, studio in the Berkshires, September, 1946

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Nelson congratulates a blind worker. For her work in training blind persons for war industries, Miss Helen Hurst, founder of the Helen Hurst Foundation For the Blind, was congratulated by Donald M. Nelson, War Production Board (WPB) chairman. Miss Hurst, herself blind, tries out the various types of jobs to see if they can be done by blind people before she places them in industry

Alabama native Percy Sledge sang "When A Man Loves A Woman" and the audience went wild at the Alabama Country Music Hall of Fame concert for the Inductees into the Hall of Fame, Montgomery, Alabama

Rick Tuttle oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Culver City, California, 2013-04-11.

Clara Barton House, home of the founder of the American Red Cross, Washington, D.C.

Baseballs autographed by six Presidents. 'Big Train's' gift to Baseball Hall of Fame. Washington, D.C., April 29. Walter Johnson's contribution to the National Baseball Museum at Cooperstown, New York, will be these six baseballs autographed by six presidents: Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover. With the exception of the ones autographed by Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover, the balls are those which were thrown out at opening games pitched by Johnson during his regime as star pitcher for the Washington Senators. The ball autographed by President Hoover was presented to Johnson while he was manager of the Washington team while the one with the signature of Theodore Roosevelt was a special gift to the Big Train

New broadcasting studios on Queen Milisande's Way, Jerusalem. Studio No. II, looking toward the cabin 1 & 2

Studio portraits of members of the American Colony (Jerusalem), friends, and associates

[Portrait of Harry Gibson, Diamond studio, New York, N.Y.(?), ca. Apr. 1947]

Amelia Earhart of transatlantic fame is received by President Coolidge. Miss Amelia Earhart of Boston (left) who was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic, was received by President Coolidge today. She is shown in this photograph with Porter S. Adams, President of the National Aeronautic Association

Guy Pendleton in studio, 12/9/25

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