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Some would call this eclectic, others funky, art in the vibrant South Austin neighborhood of Austin, Texas

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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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Highsmith, Carol M., 1946-, photographer
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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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label_outline Explore South Austin Art Scene, South Austin Neighborhood, Funky Art

[Doorway, Austin, Texas] - Drawing. Public domain image.

Neighborhood house pageant, 4/26/22

One of the outsized obstacles at the Peter Pan miniature-golf course in Austin, Texas

Sign above one of many small, and in some cases roadside, eateries in South Austin, a vibrant neighborhood below downtown Austin, Texas

Some would call this eclectic, others funky, art in the vibrant South Austin neighborhood of Austin, Texas

Annabelle Davis gets a taste of mechanical-bull riding at Rodeo Austin, the city's annual stock show and rodeo. Austin, Texas

Carnival scene at the Star of Texas Fair and Rodeo, produced by Rodeo Austin in Austin, Texas

Sunday morning at Lynchburg Cotton Mill (Virginia) Ed Tolley, the smallest, said 15 years old, but that is very doubtful. Others in these three photos, Lucien Tolley, Herbert Aultico, Henry Daly, John Crawley. (See my report for addresses.) Most of these boys could not spell own name. All claimed to be over 14, but their disputes showed "These's a reason." They get from three to four dollars a week and some pay board. One said, "I get all over $2.60." Some were surely under twelve. All work. Lindsey Witt has been working there 2 years. Dewey Anderson, three years. M[y]ron Cole, some time. Location: Lynchburg, Virginia.

Carnival scene at the Star of Texas Fair and Rodeo, produced by Rodeo Austin in Austin, Texas

Funky art in the isolated Terlingua settlement, just north of Big Bend National Park in Texas's "Trans-Pecos" region

Charlie Lucas makes his art from materials that others have discarded, at his workshop in Pink Lily, Alabama

[Coolidge and others on steps of White House, Washington, D.C.]

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