Supreme Court To Hear Case Over NC's Use Of Pirate Ship Images

The U.S. Supreme Court will take on a case involving the state of North Carolina and a video production company.

The Queen Anne's Revenge ran aground off the coast of North Carolina just over 300 years ago.

The wreckage was discovered in 1996, and a company called Nautilus Productions has spent years documenting the ship's salvage.

Now the state and the company are in a copyright suit. Nautilus Productions sued over photos and videos that were used on North Carolina's YouTube channel and in a newsletter.

A trial court had previously allowed the case to go forward, but an appeals court dismissed it. Now it's up to the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether the lawsuit can proceed.