The $23M Lie: How Corporations Rent What's Public Domain
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The $23M Lie: How Corporations Rent What's Public Domain
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Nobody prosecuted a company for charging thousands for a photograph the federal government made in 1936 - a Migrant Mother the Library of Congress gives away for free, yet Getty listed licenses up to $5,000. How did an industry build a multi-million-dollar business on clearly public-domain works, and why has the law designed to stop false copyright claims never been used?
In this episode, we lay out the facts of how archives, image libraries, and corporations enforced fees on works created by government employees and other public-domain material, the legal mechanisms that allow it, and the economic incentives that kept creators and publishers paying rather than fighting. What happens when the cost of enforcement exceeds the price of compliance, and who ultimately pays?
Person: Dorothea Lange
Date: 1936
Location: Farm Security Administration (federal government)
Topic: copyfraud - false copyright claims on public-domain works
Law: 17 U.S.C. § 504(c) (false copyright notice) - maximum penalty $2,500
- The photograph known as "Migrant Mother" was taken in 1936 by a federal employee and entered the public domain immediately.
- Getty Images listed that same photograph for up to $5,000 for a single six-month license.
- Section 5-00 and 6, subsection C of Title 17 makes false copyright notices a federal offense with a maximum penalty of $2,500 and requires proof of intent.
- Jason Mazzone documented millions of works and tens of millions of dollars collected through copyfraud while the statute has been used zero times against companies.
- Archives often applied a single fee schedule to mixed collections, charging for public-domain items and offering no refunds even when works should have been free.
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