newyorker: Has James Joyce Been Set Free? On New Year’s Eve, the Twitter feed of UbuWeb, an online archive of the avant garde, posted a link to an article in The Irish Times about the expiry of European copyright on the work of James Joyce. The link was accompanied by a curt message to Joyce’s grandson and sole living descendent: “Fuck you Stephen Joyce. EU copyright on James Joyce’s works ends at midnight.” While the language may have been unusually confrontational, the sentiment it expressed is widespread. The passage into public domain of Joyce’s major works has been talked up in certain quarters as though it were a bookish version of the destruction of the Death Star, with Stephen Joyce cast as a highbrow Darth Vader suddenly no longer in a position to breathe heavily down the necks of rebel Joyceans. -Mark O’Connell on what the post-Stephen will bring: http://nyr.kr/xj2D9F For the TL;DR version, see this tweet from Mark O’Connell, whom we’re proud to call one of our own.
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Has James Joyce Been Set Free?

On New Year’s Eve, the Twitter feed of UbuWeb, an online archive of the avant garde, posted a link to an article in The Irish Times about the expiry of European copyright on the work of James Joyce. The link was accompanied by a curt message to Joyce’s grandson and sole living descendent: “Fuck you Stephen Joyce. EU copyright on James Joyce’s works ends at midnight.” While the language may have been unusually confrontational, the sentiment it expressed is widespread. The passage into public domain of Joyce’s major works has been talked up in certain quarters as though it were a bookish version of the destruction of the Death Star, with Stephen Joyce cast as a highbrow Darth Vader suddenly no longer in a position to breathe heavily down the necks of rebel Joyceans.

-Mark O’Connell on what the post-Stephen will bring: http://nyr.kr/xj2D9F
For the TL;DR version, see this tweet from Mark O’Connell, whom we’re proud to call one of our own.

Source: newyorker.com

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    Very interesting…...just can’t ever escape the controversy, can he?
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    For the TL;DR version, see this tweet from Mark O’Connell, whom we’re proud to call one of our own.
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    And then i said free at last when you asked me free at last yes.
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    ho ho ho public domain
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