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Nameplate for the 2010 Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge past the massive Hoover Dam
Aerial view of the 2010 Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge past the massive Hoover Dam
Aerial view of the 2010 Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge past the massive Hoover Dam
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The pedestrian walkway on the 2010 Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge past the massive Hoover Dam
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Like the dam, the bridge, which primarily carries U.S. highway 93 vehicular traffic, straddles the border between Arizona and Nevada in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River. The bridge, which became a favorite photography spot for tourists, is named after O'Callaghan, a decorated Korean War veteran and onetime Nevada governor, and Tillman, who had played football for the Arizona State University and the Arizona Cardinals but relinquished his multimillion-dollar career in the National Football League to enlist as an infantryman in the U.S. Army. Tillman was killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan in 2004.
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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/)