North Carolina wins court piracy case over Blackbeard’s ship
In this Oct. 26, 2011, file photo, researchers led by the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources' Underwater Archaeology Branch rest a recovered 2,000-pound cannon on the back of a NOAA research vessel from the wreck of the pirate Blackbeard's ship, which has been on the ocean floor off the North Carolina coast for nearly 300 years in Beaufort, N.C. The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a copyright dispute that grew out of the discovery of the pirate Blackbeard’s ship off North Carolina’s coast. (Chuck Beckley/The Jacksonville Daily News via AP)