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Former home and an old water wagon in Kassler, Colorado, once a thriving small town where employees of the Denver Water utility lived and managed the dams, reservoirs, and 6.2-mile hiking, biking, and horseback-riding trail through Waterton Canyon. Today (in 2016), Kassler is nearly a ghost town, save for some administrative activities, tours, and lectures

Onetime home in Kassler, Colorado, once a thriving small town where employees of the Denver Water utility lived and managed the dams, reservoirs, and 6.2-mile hiking, biking, and horseback-riding trail through Waterton Canyon. Today (in 2016), Kassler is nearly a ghost town, save for some administrative activities, tours, and lectures

Wall of an old building in Kassler, Colorado, once a thriving small town where employees of the Denver Water utility lived and managed the dams, reservoirs, and 6.2-mile hiking, biking, and horseback-riding trail through Waterton Canyon. Today (in 2016), Kassler is nearly a ghost town, save for some administrative activities, tours, and lectures

A "water landmark" in the (mostly) ghost town of Kassler in Waterton Canyon in Jefferson County, Colorado. Kassler was once the home of employees of the city water agency, now called Denver Water, that supervised activities in and along the South Platte River in the canyon, which has become one of metropolitan Denver's favorite workout venues where bicylists, hikers, walkers, and horseback riders exercise in a beautiful, invigorating, patrolled environment. Kassler is now mostly a collection of administrative buildings used by Denver Water

Brick shed in a field that used to be a vast sand pit that filtered water from the South Platte River in Kassler, Colorado, once a thriving small town where employees of the Denver Water utility lived and managed the dams, reservoirs, and 6.2-mile hiking, biking, and horseback-riding trail through Waterton Canyon. Today (in 2016), Kassler is nearly a ghost town, save for some administrative activities, tours, and lectures

The Denver Water utility's headquarters for canyon activities in Waterton Canyon in the now mostly deserted old town of Kassler in Jefferson County, Colorado. The canyon is one of metropolitan Denver's favorite workout venues, where bicylists, hikers, walkers, and horseback riders exercise in a beautiful, invigorating, patrolled environment managed by Denver Water and the U.S. Forest Service. The unchecked foliage in front is an example of xeriscaping, in which native plants and flowers are left to fend for themselves in human environments, as they would in wild places

The South Platte River, coursing through Waterton Canyon in Jefferson County, Colorado. There, the Denver Water utility dams the river twice and captures its water for consumption in metropolitan Denver, while active Coloradans hike, bike, and ride horses on the wide Waterton Canyon Trail beside the rushing stream

Now-abandoned ranch cabins in North Park, Colorado. (Coloradans in this remote part of the state, near the Wyoming line, call their valleys "parks.") The surrounding Park Range is a spectacular portion of the Rocky Mountains. This vast area, up dirt roads out of Walden, Colorado, in Jackson County, one of the the least-populated counties in America, is somewhat like a beautiful national park but minus tourists and their inconsiderate behavior

Cabin and a few farm implements in South Pass City, a mining boomtown of 2,000 people in the 1860s in what is now Fremont County, Wyoming, that by 1949 was a ghost town. Over time miners, speculators, and businessmen, finding little gold and suffering in the region's winter blizzards and unrelenting summer heat, abandoned the town, which is named for the surrounding valley that proved the most reliable route through the Rocky Mountains for emigrants on the Oregon, Mormon, and California trails. Now a historic site, South Pass City once again has (in 2016) a few hardy residents

Vintage equipment in a field in Kassler, Colorado, once a thriving small town where employees of the Denver Water utility lived and managed the dams, reservoirs, and 6.2-mile hiking, biking, and horseback-riding trail through Waterton Canyon. Today (in 2016), Kassler is nearly a ghost town, save for some administrative activities, tours, and lectures

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Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

Gift; Gates Frontiers Fund; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:068).

Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado 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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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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