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A much more upscale buggy stand near old-style handcarts at the Martin's Cove Mormon Handcart historic site in Sweetwater County, Wyoming. The site, on the old Mormon and Oregon trails (and the California Trail and Pony Express route as well, which all followed similar routes before diverging in what is now western Wyoming), recalls the Mormons' westward migration after they were forced from their village in Illinois. Many Mormon emigrants pulled their families andor possessions in crude handcarts on the arduous journey. These carts are used for school-group tours, when youngsters are invited to pull their classmates around the grounds

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A much more upscale buggy stand near old-style handcarts at the Martin's Cove Mormon Handcart historic site in Sweetwater County, Wyoming. The site, on the old Mormon and Oregon trails (and the California Trail and Pony Express route as well, which all followed similar routes before diverging in what is now western Wyoming), recalls the Mormons' westward migration after they were forced from their village in Illinois. Many Mormon emigrants pulled their families andor possessions in crude handcarts on the arduous journey. These carts are used for school-group tours, when youngsters are invited to pull their classmates around the grounds

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Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Gift; Gates Frontiers Fund; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:069).
Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming 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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