Frank Gaylord, now 85, won a government-sponsored contest to sculpt a memorial to Korean War veterans in Washington, D.C. all the way back in 1990. The memorial he eventually built, which you can see here, drew the attention of John Alli, a retired U.S. Marine and an amateur photographer. In 1995, Alli took hundreds of photographs of the memorial on a snowy day and eventually produced a single, haunting photo. In 2002, the federal government paid Alli $1,500 to use his photo as the basis for a 37-cent postage stamp.
Got all that? In 12 years, we went from sculpture to photo to stamp, and Gaylord, who served as an Army paratrooper in World War II, got essentially nothing along the way, court records show. In 2006, Gaylord, living then as now in Vermont, walked into the law offices of Primmer Piper Eggleston & Kramer in Burlington, Vt., and inquired about suing the government for copyright infringement. Partners remembered that one of their law school classmates, Heidi Harvey, worked for the IP powerhouse Fish & Richardson in Boston, and they suggested Gaylord work with her.
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