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An area outside the bedroom of the boys' shared bedroom at the Miller House, considered a modern-architecure gem designed by Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen and completed in 1957 in Columbus, a south-central Indiana city that has become a destination for fine art and architecture lovers

An area outside the bedroom of the boys' shared bedroom at the Miller House, considered a modern-architecure gem designed by Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen and completed in 1957 in Columbus, a south-central Indiana city that has become a destination for fine art and architecture lovers

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It earned that reputation after this house's owners, industrialist and philanthropist J. Irwin Miller and his wife, Xenia Simons Miller, paid prominent architects' commissions on public buildings throughout the city in order to infuse Columbus with fresh, modern art and architecture. Following the death of Xenia Miller in 2008, the family donated the house and gardens to the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:103-1).
Forms part of 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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01/01/2016
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