From the July 28, 2015, Wilmington (NC) Star-News/AP by Martha Waggoner.
Florida-based Intersal, Inc., the shipwreck-hunting company that found Pirate Blackbeard's ship, the Queen Anne's Revenge which sank off the North Carolina coast nearly 300 years ago, is suing the state for more than $8 million saying that it violated a contract involving photos and videos of the wreck and artifact recovery.
The lawsuit also seeks a temporary order preventing the state from recovering any more objects. the company says they really didn't want to do this but had no choice but to protect their rights.
Listed among the violations are the state display of more than 2,000 images and more than 200 minutes of video on websites other than the state's Department of Cultural Resources website.
No real loot was discovered on the Queen Anne's Revenge when Intersal found it 20 years ago, but the company agreed in 1994 to a 15-year contract for rights to photos and video of the wreck, the recovery and study of its historic artifacts.
Avast There. --Cootaye
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