03 January 2012
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Joyce works now free of copyright restrictions
As from last Sunday (1 January), all the works written in his lifetime by James Joyce are out of copyright in the EU ...
As from last Sunday (1 January), all the works written in his lifetime by James Joyce are out of copyright in the EU
As well as Ulysses, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan's Wake and Dubliners, this includes works that have not been published, which may include letters and manuscripts held in the National Library of Ireland.
EU copyright is 70 years after the writer's death. James Joyce died on 13 January 1941.
Up until 31 December, the Joyce estate was protectively controlled by Stephen Joyce, the writer's grandson. In 2007 a case was settled in California after the Joyce estate told US academic Professor Carol Schloss that she had to remove material by Joyce from her book Lucia Joyce: To Dance in the Wake. In 2007 it was ruled that the estate of James Joyce could not enforce their copyright against Scloss, who had quoted from letters between Joyce and his daughter Lucia.
Works by another legendary Modernist writer, Virginia Woolf, who died on 28 March 1941, are also out of EU copyright as from 1 January.
As well as Ulysses, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan's Wake and Dubliners, this includes works that have not been published, which may include letters and manuscripts held in the National Library of Ireland.
EU copyright is 70 years after the writer's death. James Joyce died on 13 January 1941.
Up until 31 December, the Joyce estate was protectively controlled by Stephen Joyce, the writer's grandson. In 2007 a case was settled in California after the Joyce estate told US academic Professor Carol Schloss that she had to remove material by Joyce from her book Lucia Joyce: To Dance in the Wake. In 2007 it was ruled that the estate of James Joyce could not enforce their copyright against Scloss, who had quoted from letters between Joyce and his daughter Lucia.
Works by another legendary Modernist writer, Virginia Woolf, who died on 28 March 1941, are also out of EU copyright as from 1 January.
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