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Ashley Harkins as Dorothy along the Yellow Brick Road at the Land of Oz, an unusual theme park at Beech Mountain, North Carolina
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At 5,506 feet altitude, Beech Mountain is the highest town east of the Rocky Mountains. The park, which reimagines Frank Baum's story of the Wizard of Oz and the little girl Dorothy in the Land of Oz, was opened in 1970 and for years welcomed visitors daily during the summertime.
The park closed several years later and sat empty until reopening recently. Because the area around the park has grown into a prosperous community of summer and ski homes, owners objected to the crowds, and the park now puts on performances only one day a week in June and in special performances each fall.
Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-7).
Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
Credit line: Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project 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/)
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