Re: Joyce estate copyright dispute

["James J. O'Donnell" <jod@georgetown.edu>]

The newest issue of The New Yorker has a lengthy article on the Joyce
estate, the grandson of JJ who now controls it, and the lawsuit coming
from Stanford (where the attorney is Larry Lessig).  To characterize
without judging, the grandson regards scholarly investigation as at
best silly and at worst (and usually) an invasion of his family's
privacy.  The suit is for the to me unfamiliar claim of "abuse of
copyright".  The article is partisan but informative.

Jim O'Donnell
Georgetown U.

On 6/13/06, Joseph J. Esposito <espositoj@gmail.com> wrote:
> A curious story on a scholar who is sueing the Joyce estate for
> access to private papers.  Here's the first paragraph:
>
> "A Stanford University professor on Monday sued James Joyce's
> estate for refusing to give her permission to use copyrighted
> material about the "Ulysses" author and his daughter on her Web
> site."
>
> I read this on Yahoo:
>
> http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2621&ncid=2621&e=1&u=/ap/20060613/ap_on_en_ot/james_joyce_lawsuit_1
>
> But the story is from the Associated Press and is no doubt
> available everywhere (byline:  Lisa Leff).
>
> I suspect that not all the facts have come out in the article, as
> some of the comments seem bizarre and unsupported (at least to
> me).
>
> Joe Esposito
>
>