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Scene in the Arizona portion of Monument Valley, a desert region on the Arizona-Utah border known for the towering sandstone buttes of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park

Scene in the Arizona portion of Monument Valley, a desert region on the Arizona-Utah border known for the towering sandstone buttes of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park

Scene in the Arizona portion of Monument Valley, a desert region on the Arizona-Utah border known for the towering sandstone buttes of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park

Scene in the Arizona portion of Monument Valley, a desert region on the Arizona-Utah border known for the towering sandstone buttes of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park

Outcropping in the Arizona portion of Monument Valley, a desert region on the Arizona-Utah border known for the towering sandstone buttes of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park

A rainstorm approaches in the Arizona portion of Monument Valley, a desert region on the Arizona-Utah border known for the towering sandstone buttes of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park

Navajo Keef Yazzie surveys the scene in the Arizona portion of Monument Valley, a red-sand desert region on the Arizona-Utah border known for the towering sandstone buttes of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park

Navajo Keef Yazzie surveys the scene in the Arizona portion of Monument Valley, a red-sand desert region on the Arizona-Utah border known for the towering sandstone buttes of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park

Navajo Keef Yazzie surveys the scene in the Arizona portion of Monument Valley, a red-sand desert region on the Arizona-Utah border known for the towering sandstone buttes of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park

Scene in the Arizona portion of Monument Valley, a desert region on the Arizona-Utah border known for the towering sandstone buttes of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park

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The park is frequently a filming location for Western movies. It is accessed by the looping, 17-mile Valley Drive. The famous, steeply sloped Mittens buttes can be viewed from several overlooks.

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Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112)

Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

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

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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