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Structure in what is now (2015) mostly a ghost town, called Jay Em, in Goshen County, Wyoming

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The site was a watering hole on the old Texas Trail, along which cowboys drove cattle to northern ranches and railheads from distant Texas. The land was claimed by Jim Moore in the 1860s. By 1869, Moore had the second-largest cattle operation in the Wyoming Territory, under the brand "J Rolling M," from which the community and Jay Em Creek would take later their names. The town was established to support ranchers in the surrounding area between 1912 and 1915. With highway improvements in the 1940s, Jay Em residents flocked to bigger, distant towns, leaving local busineses with few customers. Most places closed tight, but the buildings remain (in 2015) in remarkable condition, as if they'd be ready to open tomorrow if anybody were around to shop there.

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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1940 - 1949
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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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