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The Audacity of Getty Images Exploiting Carol Highsmith, America’s Photographer
I first wrote about Carol Highsmith eight years ago, asking “Is Carol M. Highsmith the Most Generous Artist of Our Time?” The answer was yes then and remains so today. Others agree with this valuation,...
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Foyle’s War’s Teeth
Perhaps it was by design, or perhaps not, but the attention to period detail in the crime series Foyle’s War is remarkable and rare in a seemingly simple way: it gets teeth right. Foyle’s War is a...
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Gettying: How Getty Images Charges Users for What They Already Own
A few weeks ago, I posted “The Audacity of Getty Images: Exploiting Carol Highsmith, America’s Photographer” about the way Getty Images took from the Library of Congress thousands of images placed in...
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Who Knew a Photographer from Getty Images Went to the Moon?
“It is unlawful to falsely claim copyright or other rights in NASA material.” — from the NASA Media Usage Guidelines So how does Getty Images get away with licensing pictures from the moon? Wouldn’t...
View ArticleGoodbye to all that: No more sticks. No more scans.
I never intended for this to become an illness blog, but once I became symptomatic for the Disease Formerly Known as Primary Biliary Cirrhosis, I could find no narratives of what to expect, and so I...
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My Miami
My mother was born in Miami in 1929 and my father arrived at 3 months in 1927. I was born at Mercy Hospital on Biscayne Bay, Coconaut Grove, Miami. I never lived permanently in Miami after I left home...
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Birth Certificates of Patricia Ruth Millard, daughter of Lucile Millard (b....
I’m putting these up because I may be the only person who has the physical objects. In 1929, when my mother, who was given the adopted name Molly Kathryn Smith, was born on August 27, 1929, the State...
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Beware of “Bubble Soccer” or Knockerball
See photo attribution below (Creative Commons) There’s a new craze in the sports world that PTAs, principals, parents, EMS, ER personnel, orthopedists and neurologists need to be aware of. It goes by...
View ArticleHow Am I? An Update on Dragging Along with Primary Biliary Cholangitis...
Roughly a year ago, I said, I’m done. No more pricks or scans. Longtime readers will know that my life from 2010 to 2015 had become a gruesome slough of gastric/esophageal varices bleeds, an uncommon...
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