Sunday April 5th, 2020 - 7:00 am
April 5, 1718: At Turneffe Atoll, in the Bay of Honduras, Blackbeard captures the logwood cutting sloop 'Land of Promise' captained by Thomas Newton. Newton and his crew put up no resistance. With Blackbeard is the ten gun, 'Adventure' out of Jamaica and its captain, David Herriot. Also on board is Edward Robinson, the ship’s gunner, who would later be involved in the Battle of Cape Fear River. At this time Blackbeard makes Israel Hands captain of the 80 ton 'Adventure.' The pirate and his crew are on the hunt. Representative image.
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Friday April 3rd, 2020 - 7:00 am
The modern internet makes infringement as easy as the click of a button. What is to stop the State of North Carolina, or any State from becoming the new Pirate Bay, with the added benefit of sovereign immunity? Injunctive relief would be available, but only long after the pirate’s booty has been realized.
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Supreme Court Rules States Have Sovereign Immunity From Copyright Infringement Suits: Is Your State Government the Next “Pirate Bay”? - Office of Copyright
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On Match 23, 2020, the Supreme Court ruled that States cannot be held liable for committing copyright infringement due to the 11th Amendment. This confers "sovereign immunity" on the States from being...Thursday April 2nd, 2020 - 7:00 am
More and more of the Princes became greedy and started helping themselves to the property of creators without paying for the right to do so, and when they were challenged on this they continued to wrap the cloak of immunity around themselves. One day it all came to a head because of the actions of the foolish Prince of North Begonia who got into a nasty legal dispute with one of his subjects.
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A Fairy Tale with an Unhappy Ending: Could it Happen in Real Life?
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Friends, gather round and let me tell you a fairy tale about the imaginary Kingdom of Nonesuch, and recount something quite surprising and unfair that happened there. Nonesuch is a progressive plac…Wednesday April 1st, 2020 - 10:37 am
Claesson and his team believe that the ship dates to the mid-eighteenth century. It was probably built in 1754 and wrecked in the year 1769. The lead researcher on the project believes that the ship was the sloop named ‘Defiance’ and it is “a pinky [sic], a type of cargo ship.” The sloop had a crew of four and a cargo of foodstuffs, including flour and pork. It was caught up in a storm and struck some rocks at Cape Neddick. Claesson told members of the Maine Historical Society that the sailors “attempted to save it and bilged the ship. The crew survived, but they couldn’t save it.”
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American Shipwreck Finally Identified – And it’s Revolutionary!
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The state of Maine in the United States is well-known for its many shipwrecks, but the stories behind some of the vessels are still unknown.Tuesday March 31st, 2020 - 7:00 am
Allen took photographs and videos of [salvaging] and preservation work being done on Blackbeard’s pirate ship, which sunk off the coast of North Carolina in 1718. Allen registered copyrights in his works. North Carolina used Allen’s copyrighted works without his permission, and he sued the state in 2013. The two parties settled, but Allen soon found that North Carolina was again using his copyrighted works without permission. North Carolina refused to admit wrongdoing, so Allen took his copyright infringement lawsuit all the way up to the Supreme Court.
www.ipwatchdog.com/2020/03/28/cosmic-copyright-conundrum-star-trek-space-force-scotus-blackbeards...
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A Cosmic Copyright Conundrum: ‘Star Trek,’ Space Force, SCOTUS and Blackbeard’s Shipwreck
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The Supreme Court's ruling in Allen v. Cooper and the Trump Administration's copyright infringement imbroglio with Star Trek have brought the issues of copyright infringement and sovereign immunity in...Monday March 30th, 2020 - 7:00 am
There is no honor among thieves pirates states, and about a year after North Carolina promised not to infringe Allen’s copyrights, the state passed “Blackbeard’s Law,” which stated that “all photographs, video recordings, or other documentary materials of a derelict vessel … shall be a public record,” and that Allen’s agreement with the state was “void and unenforceable.” In response, Allen sued North Carolina in federal court for violating the Copyright Act. The case worked its way up to the Supreme Court, which held that states are immune from liability under the Copyright Act. In other words, Allen, like all of Blackbeard’s victims, had no recourse — the state could (and can) steal his work, and there’s nothing he can do about it.
www.escapistmagazine.com/v2/blackbeard-copyright-law-states-rights-north-carolina-supreme-court/
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Sunday March 29th, 2020 - 5:47 am
In 2013, the state of North Carolina took that film and used a bit of it in a tourism video extolling the virtues of visiting the state. It did so without getting permission - which Nautilus Productions and Intersal claimed amounted to copyright piracy. The irony that the state of North Carolina, which hunted down Blackbeard and ultimately killed him after he had terrorised its merchants for a few years, was now indulging in piracy of its own over pictures of his boat would not have been lost of Edward Thatch himself.
www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/bizarre-row-over-blackbeards-ship-3984856
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Bizarre row over Blackbeard's ship goes all the way to US Supreme Court
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It is a issue that Edward Thatch would certainly understand - can the state act like a pirate?Saturday March 28th, 2020 - 8:14 am
Painters, musicians and photographers aren't the only ones who have reason to be concerned. Academic work may also be pilfered. The supercharged sovereign immunity defense likely applies to public universities, Adam Goldstein of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education wrote this week. He explained that colleges are now theoretically free to copy professors' textbooks and steal student artwork.
www.creators.com/read/corey-friedman/03/20/states-shouldnt-be-copyright-pirates
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States Shouldn't Be Copyright Pirates, by Corey Friedman
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Nearly 300 years after Blackbeard's flagship sank off the North Carolina coast, the nation's highest court is giving state governments a license to plunder. Supreme Court justices decided last week th...Saturday March 28th, 2020 - 7:00 am
Blackbeard's Lieutenant Attacks!
March 28, 1718: One of Blackbeard's lieutenants, Captain Richard and his sloop Revenge, attacks the Protestant Caesar out of Boston captained by William Wyer. The Protestant Caesar is collecting logwood, a 30-40 foot tall, irregular-trunked tree used as a source of a dark bluish-red dye. At 9 pm the crew of the 400 ton, 26 gun Protestant Caesar fights a three hour battle with the Revenge in the Bay of Honduras. Around midnight Richard and his pirates break off the fight and sail North to seek reinforcements. Representative image. nautilusproductions.com/projects/queen-annes-revenge
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Nautilus Productions Blackbeard's Queen Anne's Revenge Shipwreck Project | Nautilus Productions
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Blackbeard's Queen Anne's Revenge Shipwreck Project. Nautilus Productions is the exclusive owner and licensor of footage & video from the infamous pirate Blackbeard's flagship, the Queen Anne'sThursday March 26th, 2020 - 4:10 am
Allen spent more than a decade documenting the recovery operation, and he retained copyright protection for his work. But North Carolina published some of his photos on its website without permission. Eventually, the state agreed to pay Allen $15,000 in compensation. But then North Carolina published his work online a second time without permission, and Allen sued.
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Supreme Court rules states are immune from copyright law
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North Carolina can't be sued for pirating photos of a famous pirate ship.Wednesday March 25th, 2020 - 5:12 am
A lawsuit about Blackbeard's pirate ship was rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday in a defeat for Fayetteville videographer Rick Allen and others who make videos, photos, computer software and other intellectual property. "After this ruling, and you're an artist and your painting's in the North Carolina Museum of Art or you post a photo of a North Carolina lighthouse on your website or you write a piece of music and they're playing it in a North Carolina museum, the state has every right to take it and infringe on your copyright," Allen said. "It's open season on intellectual property owners now."
www.greensboro.com/news/state/u-s-supreme-court-rules-against-fayetteville-videographer-in-pirate...
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U.S. Supreme Court rules against Fayetteville videographer in pirate ship lawsuit
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The Supreme Court unanimously said Monday that state governments are immune from copyright lawsuits under the concept of sovereign immunity — that, except in limited circumstances, the governments c...Tuesday March 24th, 2020 - 9:24 am
Allen said the decision leaves copyright holders powerless to vindicate their intellectual property rights when states infringe. “We are saddened by the court’s decision,” Allen said in a statement. “The state of North Carolina routinely and vigorously enforces its own copyrights, yet simultaneously hides behind sovereign immunity when it violates the intellectual property rights of its own citizens. The Constitution and Congress of the United States call for a different result.”
www.courthousenews.com/justices-find-states-immune-from-federal-copyright-claims/
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Justices Find States Immune From Federal Copyright Claims
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In a case that stars the fearsome pirate Blackbeard’s prized ship Queen Anne’s Revenge, the Supreme Court on Monday ruled states cannot be sued in federal court for copyright infringement.Tuesday March 24th, 2020 - 5:38 am
Ruling unanimously in favor of states' rights on Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court said that a videographer who spent two decades documenting the salvaging of Blackbeard's ship cannot sue the state of North Carolina in federal court for using his videos without his permission.
www.npr.org/2020/03/24/820381016/in-blackbeard-pirate-ship-case-supreme-court-scuttles-copyright-...
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In Blackbeard Pirate Ship Case, Supreme Court Scuttles Copyright Claims
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A videographer spent two decades documenting the the salvage of the Queen Anne's Revenge, and when North Carolina put his work on line without permission, he sued.Monday March 23rd, 2020 - 7:51 pm
The US Supreme Court ruled today that state governments may use copyrighted images without having to ask permission of, or pay a licensing fee to, the works’ owners under the doctrine of sovereign immunity. The decision could significantly impact artists, particularly photographers and writers, whose images and words may be used by state government offices, such as tourist bureaus.
www.theartnewspaper.com/news/supreme-court-rules-film-maker-cannot-sue-north-carolina-for-copyrig...
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Supreme Court rules film-maker cannot sue North Carolina for copyright infringement
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Opinion finds Congress overstepped its authority with 1990 federal statute, but allowed for a new law to "stop states from behaving as copyright pirates"Monday March 23rd, 2020 - 7:23 pm
“After this ruling, and you’re an artist and your painting’s in the North Carolina Museum of Art, or you post a photo of a North Carolina lighthouse on your website, or you write a piece of music and they’re playing it in a North Carolina museum, the state has every right to take it and infringe on your copyright,” Allen said. “It’s open season on intellectual property owners now.”
www.fayobserver.com/news/20200323/us-supreme-court-rules-against-fayetteville-videographer-in-pir...
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US Supreme Court rules against Fayetteville videographer in pirate ship lawsuit
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Court says sovereign immunity protects the state government from copyright infringement lawsuits.Monday March 23rd, 2020 - 4:31 pm
The copyright ruling is a defeat for Frederick Allen, whose video company has been documenting the salvage of Queen Anne’s Revenge, the pirate ship that sank off the North Carolina coast in 1718. Allen sought to sue the state for posting some of his videos online and using an image in print materials. Oracle Corp., News Corp.’s Dow Jones and trade groups representing the software and music industries all backed Allen, urging the Supreme Court to allow copyright suits against states.
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/states-shielded-from-copyright-suits-supreme-court-rules
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States Shielded From Copyright Suits, Supreme Court Rules (1)
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The U.S. Supreme Court said copyright owners can’t sue for damages when a state government pilfers their work, ruling against businesses in a case stemming from the wreckage of the pirate Blackbeard...Monday March 23rd, 2020 - 4:26 pm
Copyright holders may have to worry about state infringers who pirate their works — and get away with it. That's because on Monday, the Supreme Court held that under the U.S. Constitution and without further action by Congress, states are immune from copyright suits in federal court.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/supreme-court-decides-north-carolina-is-immune-filmmakers-copyr...
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Supreme Court Decides North Carolina Is Immune from Filmmaker's Copyright Suit
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Rick Allen's Nautilus Productions said his footage of an 18th century pirate ship was posted online without permission. But he can't beat sovereign immunity enjoyed by states from copyright lawsuits.Monday March 23rd, 2020 - 2:40 pm
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday delivered a legal broadside to a filmmaker who documented the recovery of notorious English pirate Blackbeard’s wrecked ship, refusing to revive his video piracy lawsuit that sought monetary damages from North Carolina. The justices unanimously upheld a lower court’s 2018 ruling that the state was protected by a legal doctrine called sovereign immunity and could not be sued for copyright infringement for using filmmaker Frederick Allen’s images online.
www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-blackbeard/us-supreme-court-maroons-filmmaker-in-blackbeard-...
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U.S. Supreme Court maroons filmmaker in Blackbeard video piracy fight
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday delivered a legal broadside to a filmmaker who ...Monday March 23rd, 2020 - 2:36 pm
Although federal law protects such copyrighted material from infringement, a federal appeals court agreed with North Carolina that states are immune under the 11th Amendment to the Constitution from some private copyright infringement claims. Associate Justice Stephen Breyer, joined by Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, said Congress had sought to provide that "when proven to have pirated intellectual property, states must pay for what they plundered." Both Breyer and Kagan said Congress can try again to get it right.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/03/23/supreme-court-pirated-video-photos-blackbeard-pir...
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Ahoy! Supreme Court protects states from copyright lawsuits in Blackbeard pirate ship case
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The ruling is a loss for a company that has spent 20 years documenting the salvage of the Queen Anne's Revenge, which Blackbeard ran aground in 1718.Monday March 23rd, 2020 - 12:14 pm
U.S. Supreme Court Leaves Copyright Holders Without Remedy!
March 23, 2020: The United States Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision, has affirmed a lower court’s ruling that Nautilus Productions cannot pursue its copyright lawsuit against the state of North Carolina. Justice Kagan wrote for the Court that the Court’s 1999 decision in Florida Prepaid Postsecondary Education Expense Board v. College Savings Bank, which invalidated the federal statute that sought to hold States monetarily liable for patent infringement, “all but prewrote” this decision by the Court. In a separate concurrence, Justice Clarence Thomas questioned “whether copyrights are property within the original meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause.” Justice Breyer, joined by Justice Ginsburg, lamented that “something is amiss” in the Court’s prior precedents, while nonetheless agreeing that they control and therefore concurring in the judgment. “Going forward Nautilus will be evaluating all of its options.” said Allen.
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Blackbeard's Lawsuit | Nautilus Productions
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In 2015, according to a complaint filed in federal court, North Carolina pirated footage of Blackbeard flagship, the 'Queen Anne's Revenge,' then passed "Blackbeard's Law" to justify that
