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Winter scene east of Aspen, Colorado, on the highway that leads to Twin Lakes over Independence Pass
Winter scene east of Aspen, Colorado, on the highway that leads to Twin Lakes over Independence Pass
Winter scene east of Aspen, Colorado, on the highway that leads to Twin Lakes over Independence Pass
Winter scene east of Aspen, Colorado, on the highway that leads to Twin Lakes over Independence Pass
Winter scene east of Aspen, Colorado, on the highway that leads to Twin Lakes over Independence Pass
Winter scene east of Aspen, Colorado, on the highway that leads to Twin Lakes over Independence Pass
An alpine field near Independence Pass along the "Top of the Rockies" road between Aspen and Twin Lakes in Colorado
Colorful ranch buildings near Twin Lakes, at the base of Mount Elbert in Lake County, Colorado. The little settlement effectively forms the eastern end of the winding "Top of the Rockies" route through Independence Pass from Aspen on the western end
View of Twin Lakes, really one large lake on the eastern end of Independence Pass and the Top of the Rockies Scenic Byway when viewed from lake level. That pass, westward from the town of Twin Lakes to Aspen, is closed as many as six months a year because of heavy snow accumulation
Winter scene east of Aspen, Colorado, on the highway that leads to Twin Lakes over Independence Pass
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Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Gift; Gates Frontiers Fund; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:068).
Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within 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/)