June 13, 2004

Don't Read James Joyce

Posted by Daniel McCarthy at June 13, 2004 10:21 PM

At least, not unless you're willing to pay his grandson for the privilege. Stephen Joyce has threatened to sue the National Library in Dublin for copyright infringement over the display of some of the author's Ulysses notebooks. Young Joyce has also tried to put the kibosh on reading aloud from his grandfather's work in public. He sounds like the kind of guy who thinks that libraries should be charged for the books they lend -- after all, by letting patrons read books for free the libraries are robbing authors of royalties from sales.


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