When is a video of a pirate shipwreck in the hands of a state government agency classed as public record available to everyone?
State officials in North Carolina have answered this by passing a law that ensures videos of the wreck of the pirate ship Queen Anne’s Revenge are considered a public record.
But US District Judge Terrence Boyle has now allowed a lawsuit to continue by videographer Rick Allen, who is challenging what is known as Blackbeard’s Law, according to local newspaper Fayetteville Observer.
