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Colorful marker describing the wide variety of trees at Tippecanoe Battlefield Park, near Lafayette in Tippecanoe County, Indiana
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The park, and a large obelisk memorial, remember the Battle of Tippecanoe, fought here on November 7, 1811, between American forces led by Governor William Henry Harrison of the Indiana Territory and Indian warriors associated with the Shawnee leader Tecumseh and his brother, Tenskwatawa, commonly known as "The Prophet." The victorious Harrison, who would later become a U.S. president, was thereafter known as "Old Tippecanoe." The word Tippecanoe has nothing to with canoes; it roughly translates from an indigenous language as "buffalo fish."
Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:103-1).
Forms part of 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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