Piracy, Old and New: Copyright, State Sovereignty, and the Queen Anne’s Revenge.

The article discusess the U.S. Supreme Court case Allen v. Cooper addressing whether the Congress validly abrogated state sovereign immunity through the Copyright Remedy Clarification Act in providing remedies for authors of original expression whose federal copyrights are infringed by states. In this case Petitioner Allen claims that the State of North Carolina infringed his copyrights in images and video of the salvage of Blackbeard's famed pirate ship.