23 March 2020CopyrightSarah Morgan

States immune from copyright suits: SCOTUS

The US Supreme Court has declared that state institutions can’t be sued for copyright infringement, in a case stemming from the use of videos and images featuring the wreck of Blackbeard’s ship, Queen Anne’s Revenge.

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