p2p news / p2pnet: The Stanford Center for Internet and Society’s Fair Use Project is suing the James Joyce estate for refusing to allow Carol Shloss to use copyrighted Joycean material on her web site.

An acting Stanford English professor, she’s challenging the estate’s assertion that she’d be infringing on its ownership of Joyce’s image by quoting his published works, manuscripts and private letters on her site, says the Associated Press, going on:

“Instead, Shloss accused Joyce’s grandson, Stephen James Joyce, and estate trustee, Sean Sweeney, of destroying papers, improperly withholding access to copyrighted materials and actively intimidating academics to protect the Joyce family name.

“Stephen James Joyce is not named as a defendant in the suit, but as an agent of his father’s estate.”

“This is the first in what we expect will be a series of cases defending the boundaries of fair use,” says professor Lawrence Lessig on his blog.

“I�ve been studying Finnegans Wake with a reading group in Berkeley for nearly a decade now, and have met Carol Shloss and many other hardcore Joyceans who have long lamented Stephen James Joyce�s actions,” says a comment post.

Shloss wants the court to rule she’s entitled to use information the estate controls under laws that allow authors to, “quote copyrighted works if they do it in “a scholarly transformative manner,” says AP.

Also See:
Associated Press - Stanford prof sues James Joyce’s estate for right to quote works, June 12, 2006

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