Jasmine Pickner-Bell and her baby, Aloysia Hoksi Wincincala Bell, two of the participants from the Wind River (Wyoming) Reservation in dancing, drumming, and other demonstrations of Indian life at the Indian Village on the rodeo grounds at the Cheyenne Frontier Days celebration in the Wyoming capital city

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Jasmine Pickner-Bell and her baby, Aloysia Hoksi Wincincala Bell, two of the participants from the Wind River (Wyoming) Reservation in dancing, drumming, and other demonstrations of Indian life at the Indian Village on the rodeo grounds at the Cheyenne Frontier Days celebration in the Wyoming capital city

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The Western celebration that is viewed by an estimated 200,000 onlookers, including throngs of tourists, each year in a city of 62,000 people (as of 2015) includes one of the West's most celebrated rodeos, American Indian pageantry, free pancake breakfasts, several Old West-themed parades, and other events. Cheyenne Frontier Days have been a mountain-states tradition since 1897.
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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