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Small stained-glass window in the McFaddin-Ward House in Beaumont, Texas, now a house museum, was built in 1905-1906 in the striking and distinctive Beaux-Arts Colonial style

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Originally owned by cattle and oil man W.P.H. McFaddin and his wife, Ida, the home was one of a number of grand residences built in town by local architect Henry Conrad Mauer during the early twentieth century.

Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

Gift; The Lyda Hill Foundation; 2014; (DLC/PP-2014:054).

Forms part of: Lyda Hill Texas Collection of 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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1905
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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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Beaumont (Tex.) ,  30.08611, -94.10194
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Library of Congress
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texas beaumont mcfaddin ward house henry conrad mauer house museums stained glass windows digital photographs color beaumont tex small window small stained glass window mcfaddin ward house museum house museum beaux arts colonial style stained glass window church free images carol m highsmith beaux arts colonial style high resolution architecture neoclassicism free images no copyright stock foto website pictures freeimages carol m highsmith america project united states history library of congress colonial style