Sand Tiger Saturday! 

 

Scintillating scenes of a shiver of Sand Tiger sharks swimming in the soothing sea. From the Nautilus Productions stock footage collection. 

 

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Nautilus 4K Stock Footage! 

A small sample of our Nautilus Productions 4K UHD underwater stock footage of sharks, shipwrecks & marine life. We also license footage from Blackbeard's Queen Anne's Revenge Shipwreck Project. WATCH MORE!

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Blackbeard & Nautilus Productions on the Smithsonian Channel! 

Sunday Sept. 20th & Tuesday Sept 29th follow nautical archaeologists and historians in their search for Blackbeard's ship and the truth behind its sinking. Nautilus Productions provided stock footage from the Queen Anne's Revenge Shipwreck Project for this episode. Blackbeard's ship, Queen Anne's Revenge, was once the most feared vessel ever to sail the high seas. In June 1718, she sank off the North Carolina coast, bringing an end to her six-month reign of terror. ("Secrets Unlocked" Blackbeard's Ship - Season 1, Episode 29) https://www.smithsonianchannel.com/video/series/secrets-unlocked/71731

 

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NWF Webcast for Shark Week!

Nautilus Productions' Rick Allen had the great pleasure of chatting with Naturalist David Mizejewski during the National Wildlife Foundation's webcast for Shark Week! The 30 minute webcast is all about a behind the scenes look at the fin-tastic world of filming sharks. WATCH WEBCAST

8/14/20

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Has A State Infringed Your Copyright?!

Help us, help Congress, change the law to prevent State infringement of your copyrighted material! The U.S. Copyright Office is undertaking a public study to determine the extent to which copyright owners are experiencing infringement by states without adequate remedies under state law. And we need your input! Comment here - https://www.copyright.gov/policy/state-sovereign-immunity/

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USPTO & Copyright Office to Take on Sovereign Immunity in Copyright

On April 28, 2020, in the wake of the disastrous Supreme Court decision against copyright holders in Allen v. Cooper, Senators Thom Tillis (R) and Patrick Leahy (D) have called for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the U.S. Copyright Office to “advise on the pervasiveness and prevalence of States’ infringements of copyrights.” The letters state that, “The Supreme Court's ruling last month in Allen v. Cooper created a situation in which copyright owners are without remedy if a State infringes their copyright and claims State sovereign immunity under the Eleventh Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.” READ MORE

Piracy & Plunder by North Carolina!

An extensive list of the press coverage surrounding Allen v. Cooper. This lawsuit arises out of the retrieval of Blackbeard’s pirate ship. According to the complaint filed in the case, North Carolina was not content to use Nautilus Productions videography as agreed and began making unauthorized copies, covering up their misconduct and passing and amending legislation to protect their copyright infringements. Defendants in addition to the Governor and the State include employees of the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, and the Friends of Queen Anne’s Revenge non-profit. PRESS COVERAGE

U.S. Supreme Court Leaves Copyright Holders Without Remedy! 

 

March 23, 2020: After North Carolina passed Blackbeard's Law & was sued for copyright infringement the United States Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision, has affirmed a lower court’s ruling that Nautilus Productions cannot pursue its lawsuit against the state. Justice Kagan wrote for the Court that the Court’s 1999 decision in Florida Prepaid Postsecondary Education Expense Board v. College Savings Bank, which invalidated the federal statute that sought to hold States monetarily liable for patent infringement, “all but prewrote” this decision by the Court. In a separate concurrence, Justice Clarence Thomas questioned “whether copyrights are property within the original meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause.”  Justice Breyer, joined by Justice Ginsburg, lamented that “something is amiss” in the Court’s prior precedents, while nonetheless agreeing that they control and therefore concurring in the judgment.  

Nautilus, the official videographer of Blackbeard’s pirate ship the Queen Anne’s Revenge, brought suit at the end of 2015 alleging the defendants made illegal copies of Nautilus’s videography, and then persuaded the legislature to pass an extraordinary law - now known as “Blackbeard’s Law” - in an attempt to justify pirating decades of work created by Nautilus. 

Nautilus owner, Rick Allen, stated, “Today, under this Supreme Court ruling, writers, software developers, composers, film-makers and other creators, just like me, cannot avail themselves of the protection Congress gave them from copyright infringement by states. We are saddened by the court’s decision. The state of North Carolina routinely and vigorously enforces its own copyrights, yet simultaneously hides behind sovereign immunity when it violates the intellectual property rights of its own citizens. The Constitution and Congress of the United States of America call for a different result.  The Constitution expressly grants copyright holders ‘the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries,’ and Congress expressly provided for States to be liable when they infringe those exclusive rights.”

“Going forward Nautilus will be evaluating all of its options.” said Allen.

This lawsuit arises out of the retrieval of Blackbeard’s pirate ship. According to the complaint filed in the case, the defendants were not content to use the videography as agreed and began making unauthorized copies, covering up their misconduct and passing and amending legislation to protect their copyright infringements. Defendants in addition to the Governor and the State include employees of the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, and the Friends of Queen Anne’s Revenge non-profit. The Friends of Queen Anne’s Revenge dissolved their corporation after the lawsuit was filed and are being defended by their insurance carrier.

Since 1998, Nautilus Productions has been the official video crew for the Blackbeard’s Queen Anne’s Revenge Shipwreck Project. Nautilus Productions has spent almost 20 years diving on the pirate shipwreck in dangerous conditions and documented archaeological activities and the recovery of artifacts from Blackbeard’s infamous shipwreck for the benefit of, and at zero cost to, the taxpayers of North Carolina.   

The shipwreck was discovered in 1996 by Intersal Inc., which has filed a separate lawsuit against North Carolina and the Friends of Queen Anne’s Revenge that continues in state business court. 

The case is listed with the Supreme Court of the United States as No. 18-877. 

Nautilus Productions LLC is represented by Derek Shaffer and Todd Anten of Quinn Emanuel, Susan Freya Olive and David McKenzie of Olive and Olive, P.A. and Joe Poe of the Poe Law Firm, PLLC.

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DIVELOG - Stuck at home & need an underwater fix?

The DIVELOG nautical web series focuses on sharks, shipwrecks, underwater archaeology, history, biology, marine life, scuba diving and undersea research. WATCH THE VIDEOS

New Nautilus 4K Underwater Stock Footage!

Nautilus Productions LLC has uploaded 2 hours of new 4K UHD footage of Atlantic & Caribbean marine life. Sharks, turtles, octopus, eels & more in our video library. WATCH THE FOOTAGE

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Nautilus Productions updates Blackbeard's Queen Anne's Revenge stock footage collection!

Nautilus Productions LLC has added 3 new extended/higher resolution video clips to our pirate shipwreck collection. For Licensing info contact Nautilus Productions. VIEW VIDEOS

United States Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments in Allen v. Cooper

November 5, 2019: In what may be the most important copyright case in decades, the court heard oral arguments in Allen v. Cooper. In 2015, according to a complaint filed in federal court, North Carolina pirated footage of Blackbeard's flagship, the Queen Anne's Revenge. Then North Carolina passed "Blackbeard's Law" to justify that misuse. Rick Allen of Nautilus Productions has taken 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. "States can hold copyrights. They can be copyright holders. And they can sue anybody in the world for infringement," Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said during arguments. "There's something unseemly about a state saying, yes, we can hold copyrights and we can hold infringers to account to us, but we can infringe to our heart's content and be immune from any compensatory damages."
A ruling in the case is expected in May or June of 2020.

 

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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 Legal Foundation, American Society of Media Photographers, National Press Photographers Association, Public Law Scholars, Ralph Oman (former U.S. Register of Copyrights), Law Professors, and the Constitutional Accountability Center. No briefs were filed in support of the State of North Carolina.

“The Petitioners are gratified to see this broad, distinguished coalition joining voice to support reversal of the 4^th Circuit ruling.  Together these amici underline the depth and breadth of the concerns that led Congress to enact the Copyright Remedy Clarification Act (CRCA) so that States could properly be held liable for their mounting copyright infringement.” 

In 2015, according to the complaint filed in Federal court, North Carolina pirated footage of Blackbeard flagship, the Queen Anne’s Revenge. Then North Carolina passed “Blackbeard’s Law” to justify that piracy. Rick Allen of Nautilus Productions is the victim of that piracy and is taking his case to the Supreme Court of the United States. The issue, 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 claims it has sovereign immunity in copyright and therefore is above the law and cannot be sued.

Nautilus Productions LLC is represented by Derek Shaffer and Todd Anten of Quinn Emanuel, Susan Freya Olive and David McKenzie of Olive and Olive, P.A. and Joe Poe of the Poe Law Firm, PLLC.

SHARK FEST 2019!

Let's get sharky! Sand Tiger sharks, Carcharias taurus, filmed during dives on the shipwrecks off the N.C. coast. Many of the wrecks were torpedoed by German U-boats during WWII and the sharks congregate around these wrecks to feed and reproduce. From the Nautilus Productions LLC stock footage collection. WATCH THE VIDEOS!

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‘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

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 expressly empowers Congress to grant copyright
holders ‘the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.’ We
look forward to making our case to the Supreme Court as to why it was within
Congress’s constitutional authority to hold states liable for their acts of
copyright infringement.”

Since 1998, Nautilus Productions has been the official video crew for the
Blackbeard’s Queen Anne’s Revenge Shipwreck Project. Nautilus Productions
has documented almost two decades of archaeological activities and the
recovery of artifacts from Blackbeard’s infamous shipwreck for the benefit of,
and at zero cost to, the taxpayers of North Carolina. 

The shipwreck was discovered in 1996 by Intersal Inc., which has filed a
separate breach of contract lawsuit against North Carolina and the Friends of
Queen Anne’s Revenge. That case was heard last month by the North Carolina
Supreme Court and awaits a ruling. The state of North Carolina, the North
Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources (NCDNCR) and the
Friends of Queen Anne’s Revenge non-profit, which dissolved their corporation
after the lawsuit was filed, are also defendants in that lawsuit.

Nautilus Productions LLC & Rick Allen originally filed the lawsuit,
Allen v. Cooper, on December 1, 2015. Oral arguments, which are yet to be
scheduled, will be held  in Washington, D.C. The case is listed with the
Supreme Court of the United States as No. 18-877.

Nautilus Productions LLC is represented by Derek Shaffer and Todd Anten of
Quinn Emanuel, Susan Freya Olive and David McKenzie of
Olive and Olive, P.A.  and Joe Poe of the Poe Law Firm, PLLC.

https://nautilusproductions.com/blog/blackbeards-lawsuit

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