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Old commercial building turned into a second-hand-goods store in Friars Point, Mississippi, the hometown of country-music singing legend Conway Twitty

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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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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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Bilden visar S:t Larsgatan och Storgatan. Fotografen står på S:t Larsgatan och fotograferar ner mot Trädgårdstorget. Det torn med markis och balkonger man ser på höger sida, tillhör Östgötabankens kontor, på andra sidan Storgatan ligger Anna Pettersson, garnbyte och trikåaffär samt ett parfymeri. Till vänster i bild Trädgårdsföreningens frö- och blomsterhandel. Till höger i bild Tornbergska gården även kallad Götahuset. I slutet av 1940-talet breddades S:t Larsgatan och den lägre delen av huset togs bort. Huset flyttades till Gamla Linköping från Storgatan 38. Byggnaden uppfördes efter den svåra branden år 1700 av rektor Simon Löfgren (d 1723). 1762 köpte Zacharias Lindberg (1727-86), denne drev en manufakturaffär och grundade stadens första industri, en bomulls- och linnefabrik. 1792 köpte guldsmeden Nils Tornberg huset och gav byggnaden dess nuvarande utseende genom att putsa den och ge den sin fronton. Dock behöll byggnaden ännu vid mitten av 1800-talet sitt spåntak.

front door of store - Public Domain image, National Parks Gallery

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