Adobe Launches Another Tone Deaf Contest!

 

After a disastrous rollout of Adobe's most recent Creative Challenge which was a thinly veiled rights grab of creatives' work. Adobe launches another bizarre contest. In an effort to get teachers to use Adobe's Creative Cloud Express teachers can submit "their work for a chance to win a class set of Adobe pencil cases and stickers!" 

OMG! Maybe Adobe could throw in a box of rubber bands and paper clips too! Seriously?! 

And by the way, what becomes of these submitted logos? Is there a section of the contest that also teaches students about IP rights - something every student in the 21st century needs to learn?

In 2021 Adobe's net profits stood at 4.8 billion U.S. dollars! Adobe, how about meaningful prizes; like scholarships, laptops for students, school supplies, or even school lunch funding?

Come on Adobe you can do better!

When the State Becomes the Pirate!

The real story of modern-day piracy on Blackbeard's Queen Anne's Revenge you may not know. READ MORE

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New Historical Footage!

Nautilus Productions has added new War of 1812, Battle of New Orleans re-enactment HD footage to its library. Contact us for licensing. Go To The Footage

 

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The Problem with State's Sovereign Immunity in Copyright

Join Hudson Institute Legal Fellow Devlin Hartline and expert panelists Kristen Osenga, Kevin Madigan, and Rick Allen to discuss state sovereign immunity for intellectual property infringement.  LEARN MORE

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It's all about the stock! 

  

Nautilus Productions 4K stock footage of sharks, shipwrecks & more. Browse a sample of our always growing collection.  WATCH MORE

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Blackbeard Just Broke Copyright Law, and Now States Are the Pirates

Copyright law has a huge blind spot — a blind spot that only came to light because of Blackbeard. There is no honor among thieves pirates states, and about a year after North Carolina promised not to infringe Allen’s copyrights, the state passed “Blackbeard’s Law,” which stated that “all photographs, video recordings, or other documentary materials of a derelict vessel … shall be a public record,” and that Allen’s agreement with the state was “void and unenforceable.” READ MORE

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Nautilus Productions on Shark Week 2021!

Check out “Ninja Sharks 2: Mutants Rising” on the Discovery Channel Friday, July 16, at 8 p.m. ET/PT. Nautilus Productions provided stock footage of North Carolina’s Sand Tigers for the documentary. You can see more of our extensive stock footage collection here. 

 

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Holding States Accountable for Copyright Piracy

States continue to benefit from copyright protections, but they avoid accountability for their own copyright infringement. As made clear by the legal briefs submitted in the case before the Supreme Court, as well as by comments recently submitted in response to the ongoing Copyright Office sovereign immunity study, the problem of states routinely ignoring the property rights protected by federal law is widespread and significant.  READ WHITE PAPER

 

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DAN Member Profile: Rick Allen

Rick Allen strapped on his scuba gear and peered over the edge of the barge. He’d made this same dive to Blackbeard’s infamous shipwreck, the Queen Anne’s Revenge, more than 200 times before — but not like this, not since his life-altering accident on Jan. 3, 2011.  READ THE STORY 

The Ocean Lost A Legend Today

My dear friend, colleague and beloved mentor, Bill Lovin, passed away quietly in his sleep last night. The ravages of Parkinson’s finally sent him on his last dive.

 

To say that Bill was one of the most generous, kind and talented people I know would be an understatement. He took me under his prodigious wing decades ago and we have been fast friends ever since. He was always quick to share advice, equipment and work with a young underwater filmmaker following in the steps of a man who was the first to document on film the amazing shipwrecks lying off the North Carolina coast. He introduced me to the big boys in the dive world and taught me that all food was great but Mexican food was the best. Every Thanksgiving for 25 years he and Jovita joined Cindy and I and our family for a raucous dinner and celebration.

 

In the dive community he is legend. And my heart is broken.

 

In his last years Bill and Jovita worked tirelessly to move his amazing underwater film library online. Oceanarchives.com (https://oceanarchives.com/) was their gift to students and educators and is intended to be a free resource for all lovers of our water planet going forward. Through his work, his legacy and his name, his spirit will live with all of us who were touched by this amazing man and friend.

 

Fair winds and following seas Bill . . . I will carry you and Jovita with me always.