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Display of classic Packard automobiles at America's Packard Museum, an automotive museum located in the former Citizens Motorcar Company auto-dealership building where Packards were sold beginning in 1908 in Dayton, Ohio
Display of classic Packard automobiles at America's Packard Museum, an automotive museum located in the former Citizens Motorcar Company auto-dealership building where Packards were sold beginning in 1908 in Dayton, Ohio
Display of classic Packard automobiles at America's Packard Museum, an automotive museum located in the former Citizens Motorcar Company auto-dealership building where Packards were sold beginning in 1908 in Dayton, Ohio
Display of classic Packard automobiles at America's Packard Museum, an automotive museum located in the former Citizens Motorcar Company auto-dealership building where Packards were sold beginning in 1908 in Dayton, Ohio
Display of classic Packard automobiles at America's Packard Museum, an automotive museum located in the former Citizens Motorcar Company auto-dealership building where Packards were sold beginning in 1908 in Dayton, Ohio
Display of classic Packard automobiles at America's Packard Museum, an automotive museum located in the former Citizens Motorcar Company auto-dealership building where Packards were sold beginning in 1908 in Dayton, Ohio
A classic Packard automobile hood ornament at America's Packard Museum, an automotive museum located in the former Citizens Motorcar Company auto-dealership building where Packards were sold beginning in 1908 in Dayton, Ohio
A classic automobile at America's Packard Museum, an automotive museum located in the former Citizens Motorcar Company auto-dealership building where Packards were sold beginning in 1908 in Dayton, Ohio
A classic Packard automobile hood ornament at America's Packard Museum, an automotive museum located in the former Citizens Motorcar Company auto-dealership building where Packards were sold beginning in 1908 in Dayton, Ohio
A classic neon Packard advertising sign hangs on the corner of America's Packard Museum, an automotive museum located in the former Citizens Motorcar Company auto-dealership building where Packards were sold beginning in 1908 in Dayton, Ohio
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Packard was an American luxury automobile built by the Packard Motor Car Company of Detroit, Michigan, United States, and later by the Studebaker-Packard Corporation of South Bend, Indiana. The original, 20-foot-tall porcelain and neon sign, removed from the Dayton building in the early 1940s, was located and returned to its former position on the corner of the building for the grand opening of the museum in 1992.
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-2016:103-4).
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/)