Federal Appeals Court rules for NC government in Blackbeard video case
A federal Appeals Court has ruled in favor of North Carolina’s state government in the decade-old copyright dispute linked to Blackbeard’s sunken flagship.
A federal Appeals Court panel questioned Wednesday whether a 10-year-old copyright lawsuit over images of the pirate Blackbeard’s flagship could move forward. The US Supreme Court ruled in 2020 that North Carolina state government had immunity from the suit.
Lawyers representing the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources are asking federal appellate judges to toss out a long-running copyright lawsuit over images linked to the pirate Blackbeard’s flagship.