visibility Similar

code Related

Abandoned buildings in Camden, New Jersey

description

Summary

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.

Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-8).

Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

Credit line: Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project 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/)

label_outline

Tags

new jersey camden abandoned buildings digital photographs carol m highsmith drawing high resolution carol m highsmith america project color photography urban landscape detroit publishing company photograph collection library of congress
date_range

Date

01/01/2017
collections

in collections

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.
place

Location

create

Source

Library of Congress
link

Link

https://www.loc.gov/
copyright

Copyright info

No known restrictions on publication.

label_outline Explore Camden, Carol M Highsmith America Project, Urban Landscape

Paesiello Emerson - M. Goldthwaite Barn, southend

Old folks at home, Stephen Collins Foster

Fossilized tree specimens in the Petrified Forest, now part of a U.S. national park near Holbrook in Arizona's remote Navajo and Apache counties

The Loring family vault in central Phoenix, Arizona's, Pioneer and Military Memorial Park, a historic but bleak and sandy cemetery near the Arizona Capitol. This was once seven separate cemeteries honoring military veterans and civic notables, the first of which was opened in 1884, 28 years before what was then Arizona Territory became the 48th U.S. state

Dr. H. Genet Taylor House & Offices, 305 Cooper Street, Camden, Camden County, NJ

Sculptor Avard Fairbanks's statue in Walla Walla, Washington, of Marcus Whitman, a local legend after whom both the city's landmark downtown hotel and its prestigious private university are named

Standard atlas of Lyon County, Kansas : including a plat book of the villages, cities and townships of the county, map of the state, United States and world : patrons directory, reference business directory and departments devoted to general information, analysis of the system of U.S. land surveys, digest of the system of civil government, etc. etc. /

Second Floor Bedroom. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Remains of burned-out City Methodist Church in Gary, Indiana, one of America's most economically distressed cities

Franklin King Beck House, 312 Clifton Street, Camden, Wilcox County, AL

12 Spring Alley (Commercial Building), Wilmington, New Castle County, DE

Pool with logs, Camden - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Topics

new jersey camden abandoned buildings digital photographs carol m highsmith drawing high resolution carol m highsmith america project color photography urban landscape detroit publishing company photograph collection library of congress