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Shore gun at Fort Stevens, an old and abandoned American military installation near Hammond, Oregon, that guarded the mouth of the Columbia River

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Shore gun at Fort Stevens, an old and abandoned American military installation near Hammond, Oregon, that guarded the mouth of the Columbia River

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Built near the end of the American Civil War, it was named for a slain Civil War general and former Washington Territory governor Isaac Stevens. (Oregon was then part of Washington Territory.) The fort was an active military reservation from 1863-1947.
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Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2016:103-12)
Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
Credit line: 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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