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Corner window of the Parker Cabin at Log Cabin Village, a house museum consisting of saved rural cabins moved to a central site in Fort Worth, Texas
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The museum is owned and operated by the City of Fort Worth. Built about 1848 on land east of Birdville in Tarrant County, the cabin rose on land that was part of what is now called the Peters Land Grant, a large parcel granted by the Texas Republic to settlers from the South and Midwest. It belonged to Isaac Parker, a close friend of Sam Houston, and Parker's wife, Lucy. Over time, Isaac Parker converted the double log cabin (one portion contained the bedroom, the other the kitchen) into a spacious home, and the original "dogtrot" cabin was buried beneath sheetrock and clapboards for many years. The underlying cabin was eventually moved to the Log Cabin Village site.
Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Gift; The Lyda Hill Foundation; 2014; (DLC/PP-2014:054).
Forms part of: Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in 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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