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Ohio's famous "Big Basket" building in Newark, long the seven-story corporate headquarters of the Longaberger Co., a maker of baskets, pottery, and other household items
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The basket is a replica, 160 times larger, of another basket building in the nearby, smaller town of Dresden where the company began operations in 1973 and which had built a thriving tourism economy around baskets since the Great Depression of the 1930s. The bigger picnic-basket-style building in Newark opened in 1997. In 2016, the Longaberger Co. closed the "Big Basket" building and shifted remaining employees and its operations to the "Longaberger Homestead," a complex of office buildings, shops, restaurants in Frayzesburg, near Dresden.
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-2016:103-4).
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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