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I get the impression it was worse than that, actually -- that the Irish govt collection of Joyce memorabilia, original manuscripts etc., were OK to display in exhibition, even with the Joyce estate owning copyright on them, under the pre-2000 legislation.
However, the Copyright Act of 2000 increased copyright-holders' powers, so that they gained extra rights -- including blocking the display of these artifacts that the government supposedly *owned*.
- --j.
teresahackett@eircom.net writes:
That's right. The material would be out of copyright if we still had 50yrs, but the 70yrs means it's still in force. According to the press, in previous years, RTE had to cancel Joyce readings and the Abbey Theatre had to cancel a performance for the same reason. We can only use it to strengthen our case.
th
Yep, that sounds like it was pretty hilarious. I blogged (ugh) it at http://taint.org/2004/06/16/233425a.html as follows:
Reportedly, the Dail even had to pass emergency legislation last week to prevent an exhibition at Dublin's National Library from being sued by the Joyce Estate:
The threat to the exhibition has been caused by the 2000 Copyright Act which creates a doubt about its ability to display manuscripts bought by the State because the Joyce estate still holds copyright.Hilarious. Recent overzealous copyright extension legislation snares governments too! But they get to rewrite the laws in emergency session to fix it ;)
- --j.
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