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A BASE jumper leaps into the 876-foot chasm from New River Gorge Bridge, a steel arch bridge 3,030 feet long near Fayetteville in Fayette County, West Virginia

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A BASE jumper leaps into the 876-foot chasm from New River Gorge Bridge, a steel arch bridge 3,030 feet long near Fayetteville in Fayette County, West Virginia

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Once a year, the National Park Service closes the span, one of the most photographed places in West Virginia, to vehicular traffic for a Bridge Day festival that includes hundreds of BASE jumps. With an arch 1,700 feet long, the New River Gorge Bridge was for many years the world's longest single-span arch bridge; as of 2015, it was fourth-longest. When the bridge was completed in 1977, a travel challenge was solved. The bridge reduced a 40-minute drive down narrow mountain roads and across one of North America's oldest rivers to less than a minute.
Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:055).
Forms part of: West Virginia Collection within 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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