Fayetteville videographer accuses North Carolina of violating his copyright. Florida treasure hunter also suing for breach of contract. Florida treasure-hunting company Intersal Inc., which in 1996 found Blackbeard’s wrecked Queen Anne’s Revenge just off the North Carolina coast, is continuing...
US State Changes Law To Steal Pirate Video
This article could get a bit confusing; it is about the US state of North Carolina changing an anti-piracy law so it could use the internet to copy and share somebody else’s documentary videos… which happen to be about pirates of the nautical variety...
Nearly 300 years ago, the infamous Pirate Blackbeard's flagship, the Queen Anne's Revenge (QAR), sank off the coast of North Carolina near Beaufort Inlet. A private salvage firm, Intersal, found a cluster of cannons and other artifacts in late 1996 on the seabed near the inlet. State...
It all started back in 1996 when a company named Intersal, Inc., established a few years earlier to “increase knowledge and awareness of America’s rich maritime heritage by researching, locating and excavating valuable historic shipwrecks”, found the remains of Blackbeard’s ship off the North...
NC Sued in Federal Court Over Blackbeard's Law
Modern day piracy on the Queen Anne's Revenge
The owner of Nautilus Productions, a Fayetteville photography company that began documenting the recovery of the wreck after it was discovered in the late 1990s, says the state misused his footage and...
NC Government Overreach on Blackbeard's Shipwreck.
Usurpation of Personal and Intellectual Property Rights
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Battle Over Shipwreck Photos Brews in N.C.
"The amendment to G.S. 121-25, if enacted, constitutes a violation of the Contracts Clause, Article I, Section 10 of the United States Constitution, for starters. 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983 and 1988 (attorney's fees) would also be implicated."
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Controversy Over Blackbeard's Queen Anne's Revenge Continues
Controversy Over Blackbeard's Queen Anne's Revenge Continues
“The Friends of the Queen Anne’s Revenge entered into a contract with an independent media company and as part of this contract the spouse of the treasurer of the Friends...
Lawmakers enter legal battle over Blackbeard's ship
With the legal battle over the rights to images of Blackbeard's sunken flagship intensifying, lawmakers waded into the fray by taking up legislation aimed at a shipwreck-exploration company suing the state for $8 million. "In Intersal's...
Discoverers of Blackbeard's flagship sue NC for $8M
Discoverers of Blackbeard's flagship sue state for $8M
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