Friday, April 9, 2021

State Sovereign Immunity and Copyright with Rick Allen & Kevin Madigan

You wouldn’t think that a state entity would have the right to seize your intellectual property any more than it would have the right to seize other forms of property without due process. But it can. In this podcast, I talk with filmmaker Rick Allen, who documented the recovery of Queen Anne's Revenge, and copyright expert and advocate Kevin Madigan about the challenge that state sovereign immunity poses to creators of copyrightable works. READ MORE

Thursday, March 4, 2021

Monday, March 1, 2021

Nurse Shark Stock Footage!

How better to honor our amazing care givers than with some Nurse sharks! From the Nautilus Productions LLC 4K stock footage collection. 

Monday, February 8, 2021

Still Diving into a Challenge! 

 

 

Support was forthcoming, from family, friends, media members from the competing newspaper and broadcast journalism worlds, the Fayetteville community. “Almost to a person, they didn’t treat me any different. After the accident or before,” he said. “If anything, they gave me a harder time than before. And I’ve heard every one-armed joke that there is known to man. As he put it with a little laugh, “I’m in the scratch-and-dent department.” READ MORE


Saturday, January 30, 2021

When the State Becomes the Pirate!

"In copyright, when you create something (whether it's a picture, or a book, or a story, or a piece of music or whatever), you own that. That is your intellectual property, and it's a very real property in that regard. And as the owner of that property, just like your home, you have the right to decide what you will and won't do with that property. What the Supreme Court's decision said was that states essentially had a right to interfere in what you do with your own property, without any consequence. That's a problem for all of us." READ MORE


 


Wednesday, January 27, 2021

Escaping a sinking car!


 

A Blast From The Past! The Nautilus Productions crew making an all-day, technically challenging shoot happen - 20 years ago. No GoPro cameras back then! 

 



Friday, December 25, 2020

Friday, December 18, 2020

Fouryouth Productions gets creative with virtual STEM programming!

The most exciting program was an eight-week virtual forensics mystery case. The first case, “The Case of Blackbeard’s Missing Treasure,” featured guest Rick Allen, the underwater videographer for the Blackbeard’s Queen Anne’s Revenge Shipwreck project. READ MORE

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Wednesday, November 25, 2020

Turkey Fish on Thanksgiving! 


 
Invasive Turkey Fish aka Lionfish milling about on North Carolina shipwrecks. From the Nautilus Productions LLC stock footage collection.
 
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