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The Mount Goliath Natural Area, a haven for hikers and especially wildflower enthusiasts high in the Rocky Mountains below Idaho Springs in Clear Creek County, Colorado, has been described as a "living laboratory" for the diversity of its alpine plants
The Mount Goliath Natural Area, a haven for hikers and especially wildflower enthusiasts high in the Rocky Mountains below Idaho Springs in Clear Creek County, Colorado, has been described as a "living laboratory" for the diversity of its alpine plants
The Mount Goliath Natural Area, a haven for hikers and especially wildflower enthusiasts high in the Rocky Mountains below Idaho Springs in Clear Creek County, Colorado, has been described as a "living laboratory" for the diversity of its alpine plants
Distance hikers Heather and Richard Moutoux, of Boulder, Colorado, are off on perhaps the walk of a lifetime. They will soon leave the 6.2-mile Waterton Canyon Trail, which follows the South Platte River's course from Jefferson into Douglas counties below Denver, onto the exponentially more challenging Colorado Trail. The latter, which begins in Waterton Canyon, winds 486 miles south through the Rocky Mountains, all the way to Durango in the southwest corner of the state
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Trail signs on Mount Goliath, a haven for hikers and especially wildflower enthusiasts high in the Rocky Mountains below Idaho Springs in Clear Creek County, Colorado. This rich natural area has been described as a "living laboratory" for a diversity of its alpine plants
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Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13).
Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within 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/)