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Sculpture "Homage to Medicare and Medicaid" in main lobby and links of the Health Care Financing Administration Building, Woodlawn, Maryland
Sculpture "Homage to Medicare and Medicaid" in main lobby and links of the Health Care Financing Administration Building, Woodlawn, Maryland
Sculpture "Homage to Medicare and Medicaid" in main lobby and links of the Health Care Financing Administration Building, Woodlawn, Maryland
Sculpture "Homage to Medicare and Medicaid" in main lobby and links of the Health Care Financing Administration Building, Woodlawn, Maryland
Sculpture "Homage to Medicare and Medicaid" in main lobby and links of the Health Care Financing Administration Building, Woodlawn, Maryland
Sculpture "Homage to Medicare and Medicaid" in main lobby and links of the Health Care Financing Administration Building, Woodlawn, Maryland
Sculpture "Homage to Medicare and Medicaid" in main lobby and links of the Health Care Financing Administration Building, Woodlawn, Maryland
Sculpture "Homage to Medicare and Medicaid" in main lobby and links of the Health Care Financing Administration Building, Woodlawn, Maryland
Sculpture "Homage to Medicare and Medicaid" in main lobby and links of the Health Care Financing Administration Building, Woodlawn, Maryland
Sculpture "Homage to Medicare and Medicaid" in main lobby and links of the Health Care Financing Administration Building, Woodlawn, Maryland
Summary
Artist: John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres, 1997. 10 life size portrait busts made of painted hydrocal (plaster).
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration.
Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer.
Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Gift; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2009:083).
Forms part of 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/)