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A large menorah, a candalabrum lit during the eight-day Jewish celebration of Hanukkah, stands above the entrance to the Agri-Star meat-processing plant in the eastern Iowa small town of Postville
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Following the plant's closing during the 1970s, Jews from Brooklyn, New York, in sidelocks and black hats and other Orthodox attire startled local sensibilities when they showed up in town, bought the plant, then called Agriprocessors, and turned it kosher, brought in a number of rabbis and their families, and hired dozens of Hispanic and East European workers to staff the slaughterhouse. The town was rocked again in 2008 when immigration agents raided the plant and arrested and later deported hundreds of its illegal-alien workers, while the FBI arrested the plant's owner, Aaron Rubashkin, for fraud. He was convicted and imprisoned, and the plant went into bankruptcy again, only to be rescued and reopened yet again by another Orthodox Jew, Montreal, Canada, businessman Hershey Friedman. Hence the menorah, still in place on the plant that still operates as of the date of this photograph in 2016.
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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