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Each sled dog has its own kennel in the Rocky Mountain backcountry near the ski resort of Snowmass Village, Colorado
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The animals are a feature of the Krabloonik Dog Sledding operation tied to a rustic-cabin restaurant, established in 1974, that serves fresh fish and game dishes such as caribou sausage in the alpine setting. The word ôKrabloonikö is an Eskimio term for ôbig eyebrowsö or facial hair, according to an obituary submitted to the Aspen Times newspaper by the siblings of the operation's founder, Dan MacEachen, who died in 2015. New owners, Danny and Gina Phillips, took over the operation in 2014, promising sweeping changes to improve the wellbeing of dogs, after MacEachen pleaded guilty to animal cruelty and was sentenced to lengthy court-supervised probation.
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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