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A fanciful woodcarving of the legendary Northwoods lumberjack, Paul Bunyan at the Paul Bunyan Logging Camp Museum Eau Claire, Wisconsin

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The museum presents artifacts from, and photographs of, the mining camps where hardy lumberjacks chopped trees and prepared of boards used to build thousands of homes and business buildings throughout the American Upper Midwest.

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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wisconsin chippewa county eau claire paul bunyan logging camp museum paul bunyan woodcarvings digital photographs carol m highsmith drawing camp museum eau claire northwoods lumberjack high resolution statue sculpture carol m highsmith america color photography library of congress
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2000 - 2020
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Carol Highsmith, Library of Congress Collection

In 2016, Carol Highsmith has filed a $1 billion copyright infringement suit against both Alamy and Getty stating “gross misuse” of 18,755 of her photographs.
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chippewa county
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