Brielfy Noted | Epexegetic Biographic Addenda « LRB blog
The tug of war over Joyce copyright continues. The National Library of Ireland has just released digital copies of a collection of papers bought from Alexis Léon in 2002 for €12.6 million, in response to an attempted copyright coup by…
Briefly Noted | James Joyce children’s story The Cats of Copenhagen gets first publication | Books | guardian.co.uk
Like its predecessor, The Cats of Copenhagen was written in a letter to Joyce’s grandchild, Stephen James Joyce, while the author was in Denmark and the four-year-old Stephen was in France. The new tale is “exquisite, surprising, and with a…
Briefly Noted | EU copyright on Joyce works expires – The Irish Times – Sun, Jan 01, 2012
Let’s see who gets creative! Joyce died on January 13th, 1941; originally, copyright in these works in Britain and Ireland extended for 50 years, until 1991. However, some two years after that date, EU copyright law was harmonised to bring…
Briefly Noted | Publishings 169 Years of Disruption, Told in Six Freakouts – Tim Sullivan – Our Editors – Harvard Business Review
You see, in 1842, no international copyright agreement existed to protect Dickens intellectual property — a boon for American publishers who, like publishers anywhere, anytime, were anxious for a quick buck liberally spread his words around the young nation without…




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