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The Texas Trail Museum, formed in 1986 in a building that was formerly the power plant and firehouse for the town of Pine Bluffs, Wyoming
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At first it displayed only a few women's furs, dresses and hats, exhibits have since expanded to fill the building and then some. But it grew into a 4.5-acre complex displaying moved and restored country buildings and various agricultural and western apparatus. The museum tells the story of the Texas Trail, along which for two decades in the late 1800s passed a great migration of men and cattle from Texas to replace the fast vanishing buffalo in Wyoming and Montana. The trail entered Wyoming where the town of Pine Bluffs now sits and extended northward through eastern Wyoming, then up the Little Powder River basin into Montana. Most of the early cattle herds driven through Wyoming were used to establish Montana's ranching industry. Eventually, Wyoming cattlemen recognized the value of their own state's grasslands and started ranching there themselves.
Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Gift; Gates Frontiers Fund; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:069).
Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming 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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