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Photog Seeks $1 Billion from Getty for Copyright Violations (Update) | PDNPulse

Carol M. Highsmith accuses the stock photo agency of “unlawfully charging licensing fees” for thousands of her photographs of Americana.

via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2016/07/photographer-seeking-1-billion-getty-images-copyright-infringement.html

Carol Highsmith filed suit July 25 in federal court in New York, alleging that Getty and its subsidiaries have been charging fees for the use of her images without her consent. She has been providing the images to the Library of Congress since 1988 for use by the general public at no charge.

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