Drinking fountain inside an original school building at the Hacienda Del Sol, a historic resort in Tucson, Arizona
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The Spanish Colonial-style property got its start in 1929 as a boarding school and, later, a college preparatory school for girls. In the late 1930s prominent Tucson architect Josias Joesler rebuilt areas of the property that had been damaged by fire. Thereafter it morphed into a guest ranch that became a destination for Hollywood actors, including Clark Gable and John Wayne, who were passing through or filming western movie nearby.
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Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:005)
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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