The nine black-robed justices of the U.S. Supreme Court will soon navigate the t...
WASHINGTON - The nine black-robed justices of the U.S. Supreme Court will soon navigate the treacherous legal waters around a sailing ship made famous in the 18th century by the notorious English pirate known as Blackbeard.
The filmmaker, Frederick Allen, has appealed a lower court’s ruling that North Carolina could not be sued under federal law for allegedly infringing his copyrights on five videos and a photograph of salvage operation for the ship in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Beaufort, North Carolina. A private salvage company located the wreck in 1996. Allen and his firm, Nautilus Productions, documented the efforts by divers and archaeologists to recover artifacts. Allen obtained federal copyright registrations on the videos and still images.
Appealing to the Supreme Court, Allen said states are flagrantly infringing authors’ copyrights and invoking sovereign immunity as a way to avoid paying damages.
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