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Scene in the cypress swamp along the Natchez Trace Parkway in Canton, Mississippi

This park is part of the Natural Park of Migliarino

Natchez Trace Parkway, Located between Natchez, MS & Nashville, TN, Tupelo, Lee County, MS

A canoe trip up the Mobile Delta, which consists of approximately 20,323 acres of water just north of Mobile Bay, Alabama

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Canoes on water in swamp area

Grounds of the Magnolia House and Gardens, one of the oldest plantations in the South, in Charleston County, South Carolina

Carlos Ross, Sycamore, Georgia, South Georgia.

["Magnolia Plantation," 3550 Ashley River Road, Charleston, South Carolina. Cypress swamp]

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Panther Swamp National Wildlife Refuge on the outskirts of Yazoo City, Mississippi

Panther Swamp National Wildlife Refuge on the outskirts of Yazoo City, Mississippi

Panther Swamp National Wildlife Refuge on the outskirts of Yazoo City, Mississippi

Panther Swamp National Wildlife Refuge on the outskirts of Yazoo City, Mississippi

Panther Swamp National Wildlife Refuge on the outskirts of Yazoo City, Mississippi

Summer Refuge Wetlands at Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge (8663611308)

View of Bond Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, Georgia

Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge

Canaveral National Seashore Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, Florida

Panther Swamp National Wildlife Refuge on the outskirts of Yazoo City, Mississippi

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Gift; Ben May Charitable Trust; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:059).

Forms part of the Ben May Charitable Trust Collection of Mississippi Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

Credit line: Photographs in the Ben May Charitable Trust Collection of Mississippi Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

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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Carol Highsmith, Library of Congress Collection

In 2016, Carol Highsmith has filed a $1 billion copyright infringement suit against both Alamy and Getty stating “gross misuse” of 18,755 of her photographs.
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label_outline Explore Wildlife Refuges, Yazoo County, Yazoo City

Havasu Creek flows past a campground between Mooney Falls and Havasu Falls, two of the five Havasupai waterfalls deep in Arizona's Havasu Canyon, an offshoot of Grand Canyon National Park but on lands administered by the Havasupai Indian Tribe

map from "Down the Great River; embracing an account of the discovery of the true source of the Mississippi, etc. (Publishers' Appendix.)"

Just about every New York City adult, and millions more nationwide who watch crime stories on American television, has heard of Rikers Island. It's the vast city's main jail complex in the middle of the East River. This photo of a lovely house and grounds was obviously taken elsewhere . . . at the home in the city's Queens borough whose original owner, Dutch immigrant Abraham Rycken Van Lent, whose family name would be americanized as "Riker", also owned the island that would one day hold the notorious jail

Aerial view of an industrial area of Seattle, Washington, one of many places in this Pacific Northwest city that is bisected or surrounded by straits, inlets, or shipping channels

Fossilized tree specimens in the Petrified Forest, now part of a U.S. national park near Holbrook in Arizona's remote Navajo and Apache counties

Statue and skylight inside the Rush Rhys Library, the main academic library of the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York

Steel Arch Bridge, Hennepin Avenue spanning west channel of Mississippi River, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, MN

The Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail at The Shoals, Muscle Shoals, Alabama

Hannibal, MO, June 20, 2008 -- The rising water of the Mississippi River threatens farmland next to the river. Jocelyn Augustino/FEMA

Scenery in Big Bend National Park, Texas

Office of the Administrator (Lisa P. Jackson) - ASPECT Flight over Gulfport, Mississippi (BP Oil Spill) - USEPA photo by Eric Vance [412-APD-668-ND79402.jpg]

Bridges - Mississippi, National Forest Service photograph.

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