Comments on: Actions of Joyce estate highlight problems with copyright law

By: IrishEyes

IrishEyes — Sun, 19 Sep 2004 00:14:02 +0000

James Joyce Estate Restrains Bloomsday

IRISH TIMES — The Joyce estate has informed the Irish government that it intends to sue for copyright infringement if there are any public readings of Joyce’s works during the festival commemorating the 100th anniversary of Bloomsday this June. This

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We’ve been pointed to this interesting story on Salon about the use of electronic voting in Georgia (USA):

But the election also brought sweeping victories for Republicans, including, most stunningly, one for Sonny Perdue, who defeated Roy Barnes, the incumbent Democrat, to become Georgia’s first Republican governor in 135 years, while Rep. Saxby Chambliss upset Vietnam veteran Sen. Max Cleland. The convergence of these two developments — the introduction of new voting machines and the surprising GOP wins — began to eat away at Roxanne Jekot.

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AUTHOR: Liam Boyle
EMAIL: boyleliamj@hotmail.com
This story is especially interesting because it focuses on the possibilities of hidden tampering. Most of criticisms of e-voting focus on mistakes and security problems. I think it is important to remember that once the counting of votes moves from public scrutiny, the temptations to tamper become too tempting for some.

By: Steve Kudlak

Steve Kudlak — Thu, 17 Jun 2004 06:15:11 +0000

Gee even think of making an RSS feed of this. Gack this is annother project to get into, right? Know how ro use, now do I wanna know how it works and can I do it myeelf, but it is as not totally oveecrowded. Ya know all those things get so easy to do that all the “natural male enhancement pill” sellers decide it’s a dany way for us to hear about their wares.

By: cloudy, chance of sun breaks

cloudy, chance of sun breaks — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 14:37:57 +0000

cloudy, chance of sun breaks:

cloudy, chance of sun breaks: makes me glad I can’t afford the Bloomsday Centennial: I’d love to be part of…

By: Yves Seban

Yves Seban — Sat, 20 Mar 2004 13:59:11 +0000

It sould be said that Joyce has not always been treated like the genius he was. So the estate has been burnt many times in private matters. But didn’t Joyce write to be published and read. The last blow to Finnegans Wake was that it was published when Germany declared war. And Joyce lamented: “But they should read my book.” If ever public readings of this joyful work shoulld be read, it’d be now, but there’s a grandson somewhere who guards the wake and prevents anybody to attend it. Only a happy few who clear “artistic” merits with Mr. Grandson can have the pleasure of a public perfromance. Mr. Ball for example and his horrendous recording with Irish harp. I had to ask permission for a public reading in New York at the Performing garage and submitted a recording. Mr. Grandson and Madame Solange destroyed me, insulted me in a manuscript letter about my style and accents. I felt horrible for a few months and I Kept reading the work clandestinely. I turned to reading the Wake in its Italian, French and Spanish translations now as a way to bypass the petit fils and so that we can resurrect his grandfather’s spirit in obscure reading wakes poorly attended. We will go on. What would Joyce say about his estate realtor?

By: Elastico.net

Elastico.net — Thu, 19 Feb 2004 15:34:42 +0000

Sufro en silencio

La putada de morirse es, entre otras cosas, que te conviertes en tus admiradores y que gente que consideras cucarachas se apropia de tu obra y tu figura. Menos mal que siempre queda la familia para defenderte. A veces, como…

By: Natalie

Natalie — Tue, 17 Feb 2004 17:54:57 +0000

I must agree with the rest of you, it seems rather silly that they are objecting. I would think they would want to keep his work alive by allowing public reading and performances. It is what I would do if a family member had written such a work. It seems just as bad as when Ulysses was censored during its publication year. Have we gone that backward?

By: Blog.org

Blog.org — Tue, 17 Feb 2004 08:02:34 +0000

James Joyce’s descendants give copyright critics plenty of ammunition

Apparently they intend to sue if there are any public readings of Joyce’s work during the festival commemorating the 100th anniversary of Bloomsday this June. It’s so outrageous that you might almost think it was part of a conspiracy to make the EU’s c…

By: Harry Payne

Harry Payne — Mon, 16 Feb 2004 15:35:35 +0000

“Wait – when the EU extended copyright terms, they made it *retroactive*, taking things that had been in the public domain for up to *20 years* back into private hands? Whose idea was that happy horseshit?”

Some sodding bunch of bureaucrats in Brussels who had been told exactly what sort of mayhem it would cause.

“What happens to the rights to derivative works published during that time?”

Depends on the Estate. Tom Holt was told his “Mapp and Lucia” novels, based on the works of E.F. Benson, couldn’t be reprinted. Marcus Rowland’s “ABC” role-playing game, based on “With the Night Mail” by Rudyard Kipling, carried on with the Estate’s tacit approval.

By: datacloud

datacloud — Mon, 16 Feb 2004 09:37:57 +0000

Silencing James Joyce

From funferal [T]he Joyce estate has informed the Irish government that it intends to sue for copyright infringement if there are any public readings of Joyce’s works during the festival commemorating the 100th anniversary of Bloomsday this June….

By: IrishEyes

IrishEyes — Mon, 16 Feb 2004 07:00:26 +0000

James Joyce Estate Restrains Bloomsday