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Sunset near the desolate Fort Bowie National Historic Site in Cochise County, Arizona
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The fort, remnants of which remain in these hills, was a 19th-century outpost from which the United States Army battled the area's Chiricahua Apaches. The fort was named in honor of Colonel George Washington Bowie, commander of the 5th Regiment California Volunteer Infantry that established the fort. For more than 30 years Fort Bowie and the nearby Apache Pass were the focal point of military operations culminating in the surrender of the Chiricahua leader Geronimo in 1886 and the banishment of the tribe to Florida and Alabama. The fort was abandoned in 1894.
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Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112)
Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
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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