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"Gateway to the Blues" sign at the visitor center in Tunica, one of the first towns along the Mississippi Delta's "Blues Highway," U.S. Highway 61, after entering Misssissippi from the north
A "Gateway to the Blues" sign dominates the visitor center and museum in a vintage-1895 train depot in Tunica, one of the first towns along the Mississippi Delta's "Blues Highway," U.S. Highway 61, after entering Misssissippi from the north
"Gateway to the Blues" neon sign at the visitor center promoting Tunica, in Northern Mississippi, as a good first stop for travelers to experience the rich blues-music heritage of the area
The neon sign at the visitor center promoting Tunica, in Northern Mississippi, as a good first stop for travelers to experience the rich blues-music heritage of the area lights up the night
Humble murals describing local history inside the visitor center and museum promoting Tunica, in Northern Mississippi, as a good first stop for travelers to experience the rich blues-music heritage of the area. Hollywood is a settlement just north of Tunica
The "Devil's Crossroads" (or simply Crossroads) sign in Clarksdale, a prominent home to old-time blues music in the Mississippi (River) Delta region in Northwest Mississippi
The "Devil's Crossroads" (or simply Crossroads) sign in Clarksdale, a prominent home to old-time blues music in the Mississippi (River) Delta region in Northwest Mississippi
Footpath along the Natchez Trace Parkway near Tupelo, Mississippi. Now a 444-mile-long scenic road stretching from Natchez, Mississippi, to Nashville, Tennessee, the route began as an Indian footpath
Humble murals describing local history inside the visitor center and museum promoting Tunica, in Northern Mississippi, as a good first stop for travelers to experience the rich blues-music heritage of the area. Hollywood is a settlement just north of Tunica
"Gateway to the Blues" neon sign at the visitor center in Tunica, one of the first towns along the Mississippi Delta's "Blues Highway," U.S. Highway 61, after entering Misssissippi from the north
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Gift; Ben May Charitable Trust; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:059).
Forms part of the Ben May Charitable Trust Collection of Mississippi Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
Credit line: Photographs in the Ben May Charitable Trust Collection of Mississippi 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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