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Sign for the Marble National Historic Site in Marble, Colorado Nearby, columns of marble that were once part of the Colorado-Yule Mining Company's thriving processing mill's foundation in the tiny town in Colorado's Crystal River Valley still stand

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Sign for the Marble National Historic Site in Marble, Colorado Nearby, columns of marble that were once part of the Colorado-Yule Mining Company's thriving processing mill's foundation in the tiny town in Colorado's Crystal River Valley still stand

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The mill took giant hunks of marble quarried high above, cleaned and refined them for shipment to customers, including wealthy homeowners looking to add classical touches to their estates and government entities, seeking fine-quality marble for public buildings. (Marble from this operation was used to create the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington, Virginia.) The marble veins slowly played out, and the company stopped and started production several times before closing in 1941. In recent years (as of 2015), however, a new and richer lode of marble was uncovered, and production under the ownership of an Italian marble company resumed. Next door to this site at the time of this photograph, trucks carrying multi-ton blocks of marble pulled into that company's operational headquarters.
Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Gift; Gates Frontiers Fund; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:068).
Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado 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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