James Joyce’s descendants are copyright jerks
James Joyce’s terrible descendants have decided to use the newly extended Euro copyright to bully anyone who publicly reads his work, in Ireland, on Bloomsday, into silence. Link (via Lessig) [Boing Boing Blog]
June 16, 2004, would mark the the 100th anniversary of the fictionalized events chronicled in Ulysses. I was planning to take the family until the realities of the expense sunk in. But now I don’t have to feel like I’m missing anything. I was there in 1988 and couldn’t look in any direction without seeing something Joycean . . . . The day started with a reading in the Martello tower where the day’s events begin: I took the DART down there and walked a lot of the way back. A great city to linger in . . . . I wonder how the Tourist Board feels about this? I’d love to be part of a civil disobedience campaign where the readings go as planned but everyone identifies himself as a character in the novel: let the Joyce family find themselves in court against Leopold Bloom, Stephen Daedalus, and the rest of the people in Joyce’s work.