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The Queen Anne style Starr Manor in Glenwood Springs, Colorado
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The house was built in 1901 by Edward Starr, about whom not much is known, since, according to the Colorado Historical Society, financial difficulties forced him and his family to leave the house soon after its construction. His occupation may have played a role in his short ownership of the home he commissioned: He was a saloonkeeper and wholesale liquor distributer. Starr was later able to reacquire the house to tend to his ailing wife, according to records, but again only briefly. There was a short article in the local newspaper, the "Glenwood Post" dated March 8, 1913, about one of the Starr daughters, Marguerite, aged 13, being locked out of the house by her mother who was reportedly drunk. Marguerite was found sitting on a block of ice in her yard. By 1910, the last time the Starr family can be found in historical records, they were living in the mining town of Sunlight, elsewhere in Garfield County.
Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Gift; Gates Frontiers Fund; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:068).
Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado 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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