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Customer line at The Varsity, often called the Varsity Grill, a local drive-in restaurant that became somewhat of a "must-see" institution in Atlanta, the capital city of the southern U.S. state of Georgia and the state's largest city

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Customer line at The Varsity, often called the Varsity Grill, a local drive-in restaurant that became somewhat of a "must-see" institution in Atlanta, the capital city of the southern U.S. state of Georgia and the state's largest city

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There are now six (2017) branches across metropolitan Atlanta, and others across Georgia. Originally named "The Yellow Jacket", The Varsity was established in 1928. It is said that this main location is responsible for more retail sales of Coca-Cola, on an annual basis, than any other single location in the world.
Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-5).
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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