The Supreme Court is wrestling with a modern-day dispute involving the pirate Blackbeard’s ship that went down off North Carolina’s coast more than 300 years ago. The justices on Tuesday heard arguments in a copyright case over photos and videos ...
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A sunken pirate ship off the coast of North Carolina that triggered a copyright dispute with implications for state sovereign immunity will be the subject of oral argument at the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1996, the Queen Anne’s Revenge was ...
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Read More »NEW BERN, N.C. (AP) — A lawsuit over the rights to photos and video from the wreckage of the pirate Blackbeard’s flagship is still winding its way through North Carolina courts, four years after the legal conflict began. The New ...
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Read More »North Carolina U.S. District Judge Terrence Boyle unsheathed his legal cutlass and slashed into some longstanding jurisprudence on 11th Amendment sovereign immunity in a swashbuckling order involving a copyright squabble over shipwreck photos of the Queen Anne’s Revenge. The case ...
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