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Scene from the Milwaukee Public Market, a popular shopping venue and gathering place in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin, neighborhood called the Historic Third Ward
Scene from the Milwaukee Public Market, a popular shopping venue and gathering place in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin, neighborhood called the Historic Third Ward
Scene from the Milwaukee Public Market, a popular shopping venue and gathering place in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin, neighborhood called the Historic Third Ward
A portion of the Milwaukee, Wisconsin, neighborhood called the Historic Third Ward
A portion of the Milwaukee, Wisconsin, neighborhood called the Historic Third Ward
A portion of the Milwaukee, Wisconsin, neighborhood called the Historic Third Ward
A neighborhood called the Historic Third Ward, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Restored Broadway Street in the historic Third Ward, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Welcoming archway in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin, neighborhood called the Historic Third Ward
Sign for the Milwaukee Public Market, a popular shopping venue and gathering place in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin neighborhood called the Historic Third Ward
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Once a lively warehouse district located in downtown Milwaukee that experienced a long decline, the neighborhood enjoyed a renaissance anchored by specialty shops, restaurants, art galleries and theatre groups, creative businesses and condos.
Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:103-1).
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/)