Blackbeard's Queen Anne's Revenge

13 Amici Filed with SCOTUS Supporting Nautilus’ Blackbeard Copyright Lawsuit A total of thirteen briefs were filed Tuesday with the U.S. Supreme Court supporting Rick Allen and Nautilus Productions in their case against the State of North Carolina, the N.C. Department of Natural & Cultural Resources and the Friends of Queen Anne’s Revenge nonprofit, captioned Allen v. Cooper ( No. 18-877 ).   These briefs were authored or joined by dozens of legal experts and associations, and thousands of corporations, including; The Chamber of Commerce of the United States & The Copyright Alliance, Dow Jones & Company, Inc. (The Wall Street Journal), Oracle America, Inc., Recording Industry Association of America, American Association of Independent Music, and National Music Publishers’ Association, The Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago, The Association of   the Bar of the City of New York, Software & Information Industry Association, Washington ...

Blackbeard's Bounty Due!  August 3, 1721: Three years after the death of Blackbeard the pirate by Lt. Robert Maynard the wives and widows of the crews of HMS Pearl & HMS Lyme's petition, through Captain George Gordon to His Majesty the King, for the bounty or "head" money owed to them. READ MORE     #artsandentertainment #piracy #northcarolina #shipwreck #shipwrecklaw #maritimeheritage #Pirates #NautilusProductions #Blackbeard #Documentary #StockFootage #Privateer #Archaeology #EdwardThache #copyright #QueenAnnesRevenge #McCrory #FriendsofQAR #NCDNCR #BlackbeardsLaw #NCFilm #Blackbeard300 #IntellectualProperty #lawsuit #SovereignImmunity #SCOTUS #SupremeCourt #OuterBanks #ourflagmeansdeath

‘A hand for Rick’: Underwater videographer Rick Allen overcomes near fatal accident Underwater videographer Rick Allen was nearly killed when an oxygen tank exploded at his home. A wide circle of friends cheered him to recovery. "Don’t worry about getting back in the water. Swimming in circles is not so bad... I should know; that’s what my daughters told me when I had my knee replaced,” one blogger commented. It was a reference to Allen’s love of the ocean, where he makes a living as a videographer and filmmaker. Since about 1998, he has been documenting the archaeological reclamation of the pirate Blackbeard’s shipwreck, the Queen Anne’s Revenge . READ THE STORY 10/30/2011 #artsandentertainment #piracy #northcarolina #shipwreck #shipwrecklaw #maritimeheritage #Pirates #NautilusProductions #Blackbeard #Documentary #StockFootage #Privateer #Archaeology #EdwardThache #copyright #QueenAnnesRevenge #McCrory #FriendsofQAR #NCDNCR #BlackbeardsLaw #NCFilm #Bla...

United States Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Blackbeard Copyright Case Modern Day Piracy on the Queen Anne’s Revenge In 2015, according to a complaint filed in federal court, North Carolina pirated footage of Blackbeard flagship, the QueenAnne’s Revenge . Then North Carolina passed “ Blackbeard’s Law ” to justify that misuse. Rick Allen of Nautilus Productions is now taking his case to the Supreme Court of the United States. The issue is whether Congress validly abrogated state sovereign immunity via the Copyright Remedy Clarification Act in providing remedies for authors of original expression whose federal copyrights are infringed by states. North Carolina maintains that sovereign immunity prevents it from being held liable for damages, as other copyright infringers would be. Nautilus owner, Rick Allen, stated, “We are obviously gratified that the United States Supreme Court has agreed to hear our case. The Constitution of the United States of America exp...

Blackbeard's Shipwreck And The Hook! NPR's Dick Gordon speaks with longtime diver Rick Allen, the underwater videographer of the 18th century Blackbeard's pirate ship, about losing his arm in an accident and then being fitted with an iron arm and hand that he now dives with. LISTEN TO PODCAST #artsandentertainment #piracy #northcarolina #shipwreck #shipwrecklaw #maritimeheritage #Pirates #NautilusProductions #Blackbeard #Documentary #StockFootage #Privateer #Archaeology #EdwardThache #copyright #QueenAnnesRevenge #McCrory #FriendsofQAR #NCDNCR #BlackbeardsLaw #NCFilm #Blackbeard300 #IntellectualProperty #lawsuit #SovereignImmunity #SCOTUS #SupremeCourt