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Colorful signs, trophy heads, bar paraphernalia, even a jackalope, inside the White Wolf Saloon in Douglas, Wyoming
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One of Wyoming's "Official Mythological Creatures," the jackalope is a cross between a jackrabbit and an antelope, both abundant in Wyoming, which, its aficionados point out, has authentic antelope horns as opposed to imitators in other places (they mean nearby Colorado, specifically) that pawn off jackrabbits with deer antlers as jackalopes. This may be posturing, considering the origin of the first known jackalope: In the 1930s, Douglas Herrick and his brother, Ralph, who were hunters with taxidermy skills, popularized the American jackalope by grafting DEER antlers onto a jackrabbit carcass and selling the combination to a local hotel right in Douglas, Wyoming. To further muddy the waters, a jackrabbit isn't even a rabbit (it's a hare). And the American antelope is not an antelope! It's a pronghorn, which just LOOKS like an antelope.
Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Gift; Gates Frontiers Fund; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:069).
Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming 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/)
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