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Vintage truck outside the Black and Orange "Garage Camp," an authentic 1930s-vintage tourist court, refurbished in 2009, along the Lincoln Highway, old U.S. 30, in Fort Bridger; a tiny town that grew up around a historic fort, now a state historic site, of the same name in Uinta County, Wyoming. The cabins, with carports, were an extension of the Rocheford Hotel in an attempt to serve travelers who wanted less formal accommodations. The term "garage camp" refers to the motel units, each of which included its own one-car garage next to its sleeping quarters

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Vintage truck outside the Black and Orange "Garage Camp," an authentic 1930s-vintage tourist court, refurbished in 2009, along the Lincoln Highway, old U.S. 30, in Fort Bridger; a tiny town that grew up around a historic fort, now a state historic site, of the same name in Uinta County, Wyoming. The cabins, with carports, were an extension of the Rocheford Hotel in an attempt to serve travelers who wanted less formal accommodations. The term "garage camp" refers to the motel units, each of which included its own one-car garage next to its sleeping quarters

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Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 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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