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Replica hangar and catapult device at the Huffman Prairie Flying Field, a historic spot in aviation history, located in Dayton, Ohio
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Orville and Wilbur Wright had already flown their Wright Flyer III, the world's first practical heavier-than-air plane, for 59 seconds in 1903 in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, but it was at this place, at Torrence Huffman's farm in Dayton where Orville Wright had come to sketch wildflowers as a teenager, that the brothers perfected the airplane for sustained flight and trained many of the world's first pilots. The field is now part of the Dayton Heritage National Historic Park.
The flying field and a nearby Wright monument lie within a heavily secured U.S. Air Force base but are open to the public. Because of the stringent security, access can be confusing and problematical; advance planning is recommended.
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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