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Spiral staircase and light fixture at the William Jefferson Clinton Federal Building in the Federal Triangle in Washington, D.C., located across 12th Street from the Old Post Office and houses the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Headquarters

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Spiral staircase and light fixture at the William Jefferson Clinton Federal Building in the Federal Triangle in Washington, D.C., located across 12th Street from the Old Post Office and houses the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Headquarters

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Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration.
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The Clinton Building was originally known as the New Post Office and it housed the headquarters of the Post Office Department until 1971, when the United States Postal Service replaced it. Before the building was named in honor of former President Bill Clinton on July 17, 2013, it was named for Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Special Agent Ariel Rios who was killed in the line of duty on December 2, 1982. Constructed in the early 1930s in one of Washington's most crime-ridden neighborhoods known as Murder Bay, the Clinton Building was part of the Federal Triangle redevelopment aimed at cleaning up crime and prostitution.
Designed by architects William Adams Delano and Chester Holmes Aldrich in the Neoclassical style with inspiration from the Place Vendome in Paris.
Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2017; (DLC/PP-2017:039-1).
Forms part of: Photographs in 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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