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North Carolina’s Department of Natural and Cultural Resources received a stern reminder that those who don’t remember history are doomed to repeat it. The lesson came on Friday, August 30, from Judge Terrence Boyle, in a lawsuit involving DNCR’s repeated piracy of documentary footage created by videographer Rick Allen: unique underwater images of Blackbeard’s flagship, the Queen Anne’s Revenge.
Judge Boyle’s ruling allows Allen to proceed with his claims against DNCR. “Allen has plausibly stated a claim that the DNCR infringed on his copyrights. It is undisputed that Allen holds valid copyrights in the materials he alleges th[at] DNCR infringed… Allen provides detailed accounts of his copyrights and the DNCR's alleged infringements of specific copyrights by copying, displaying, distributing, and performing his works without permission online and in a state museum.”
This isn’t the first time DNCR has faced liability for pirating Allen’s work. In 2013, DNCR violated copyrights in videography of Queen Anne’s Revenge owned by Allen and his company, Nautilus Productions—and paid $15,000 to settle that copyright infringement claim. Desperate to keep using the images, but unwilling to pay, the State passed “Blackbeard’s Law” (so named because its target was Allen’s valuable images of Blackbeard’s flagship). The law converted all photographs and video of shipwrecks that came into State hands into “public records” that the State could use without payment. Allen and Nautilus filed a federal lawsuit in 2015, and after eight years of litigation, on June 30, 2023, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper signed a bill repealing Blackbeard's Law. But DNCR continued to follow Blackbeard’s own piratical ethics, arguing that even without Blackbeard’s Law, Allen’s valuable footage was still the “property of the people” of North Carolina, which DNCR could continue copying without payment. Now, Judge Boyle’s ruling reminds DNCR that pirates—including State pirates—can look forward to walking the plank.
“We are grateful to Judge Boyle for his ruling!” stated Allen. “Our number one focus continues to be protecting the rights of all artists and creators from theft of their creative works by states and state agencies. North Carolina’s claim that it can sue its citizens for copyright infringement, but face no liability for its own state-led copyright theft, is not only unethical, but unconstitutional.”
For nearly two decades, Nautilus Productions was the official video crew for the Blackbeard’s Queen Anne’s Revenge Shipwreck Project. Nautilus Productions documented archaeological activities and the recovery of artifacts from Blackbeard’s infamous shipwreck at zero cost to the taxpayers of North Carolina. Nautilus’ footage of Blackbeard’s shipwreck has aired worldwide on the BBC, the History Channel, the Discovery Channel, PBS, National Geographic and many more.
The shipwreck was discovered in 1996 by Intersal, Inc. which has filed a separate breach of contract lawsuit against North Carolina and its Department of Natural and Cultural Resources in state court.
Nautilus Productions LLC and Rick Allen are represented by Susan Freya Olive, solive@oliveandolive.com - (919) 683-5514, of Olive and Olive, P.A., Adam Adler, aadler@reichmanjorgensen.com - (650) 623-1480, of Reichman Jorgensen Lehman & Feldberg LLP, Elliot Sol Abrams, elliot.abrams@cheshirepark.com - (919) 833-3114 of Cheshire Parker Schneider, PLLC and Joe Poe, joe@poelaw.com - (919) 810-0311, of the Poe Law Firm, PLLC.
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AI at its core is just a hi-tech aggregator of the creative work of millions of uncompensated creators and workers.
As a producer, filmmaker, stock footage provider and the plaintiff in Allen v. Cooper I continue to be dismayed by the blatant and ongoing theft of our intellectual property by AI companies.
For example, doing a quick search for my own unique content of footage from the Blackbeard’s Queen Anne’s Revenge Shipwreck Project on the “Have I Been Trained” website, I discovered that at least three of my copyrighted & watermarked images (HIBT Screen Shot 2023-10-06 at 8.59.35 AM.png – attached) had been scraped. These images and my personal work/industry/creations were stolen without my knowledge, permission or license. Who knows what other images and video have been illegally appropriated from my still and video collections by AI companies? And, even if I’m aware of the misuse of my intellectual property by AI pirates, what remedies do I have in this “after the fact situation?”
In a pattern of behavior even Charles Dickens would recognize the tech industry has shamelessly made indentured servants of us all, monetizing our work and creations without compensation while simultaneously monetizing our creative output for their own financial gain.
Comment to the USCO here - https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/08/30/2023-18624/artificial-intelligence-and-copyright