visibility Similar

code Related

Scene along the trail to Marymere Falls, deep in Olympic National Park, southwest of Port Angeles on Washington State's Olympic Peninsula

description

Summary

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.

Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2016:103-13)

Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

Credit line: 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/)

label_outline

Tags

washington state olympic national park port angeles olympic peninsula marymere falls trail moss covered rocks digital photographs carol m highsmith washington state olympic peninsula marymere falls ultra high resolution high resolution carol m highsmith america project color photography library of congress
date_range

Date

01/01/2018
collections

in collections

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.
place

Location

olympic national park
create

Source

Library of Congress
link

Link

https://www.loc.gov/
copyright

Copyright info

No known restrictions on publication.

label_outline Explore Marymere Falls Trail, Marymere Falls, Washington State Olympic Peninsula

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

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

Pantages Theatre & Jones Building, 901-909 Broadway, Tacoma, Pierce County, WA

Boy picking berries in Salmon Bay Park, Seattle, ca 1910 (MOHAI 2255)

Birds' eye view of Seattle and environs, King County Wash., 1891, eighteen months after the great fire / drawn by Augustus Koch.

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

Scenery in Big Bend National Park, Texas

Kachess Dam, Kachess River, 1.5 miles north of Interstate 90, Easton, Kittitas County, WA

Guardsmenwith the 1-303rd Cavalry Regiment clear an

Aerial view of a portion of Lake Powell, a reservoir on the Colorado River, straddling the border between Arizona and Utah near Page, Arizona, that is a favorite recreational destination

Topics

washington state olympic national park port angeles olympic peninsula marymere falls trail moss covered rocks digital photographs carol m highsmith washington state olympic peninsula marymere falls ultra high resolution high resolution carol m highsmith america project color photography library of congress