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August 3, 2016 11:01 am PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/yvLjQUIPyAg/lawsuit-getty-images-copyfrau.html
Lawsuit: Getty Images copyfrauded 47,000 photos from indie press agency Zuma
Photographer, public domain enthusiast, and national treasure Carol M Highsmith is suing Getty Images for $1B because they took the photos she'd donated to the Library of Congress and started asking people who'd used them to pay for them (they even sent Highsmith an invoice!); now it turns out that Highsmith is not alone: independent news agency Zuma is suing Getty for doing the same thing with 47,000 of their images. (more…)
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