[LINK] copyright, public display, and reclaimed public domain

[Eric Scheid]

An interesting article...

> Emergency law to prevent copyright threat to Joyce show
> http://home.eircom.net/content/irelandcom/topstories/3276297?view=Eircomnet

various snips:

> The [Irish] Government paid €12.6 million in 2001 for more than 500 sheets
> written by Joyce, including drafts of eight episodes of Ulysses as well as
> proofs of Finnegans Wake
> 
> 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.
> 
> The Government will today bring the Copyright and Related Rights (Amendment)
> Bill 2004 before the Seanad to deal with the library's difficulties. It "will
> remove any doubt as to the right of any person to place literary or artistic
> works protected by copyright or copies thereof on public exhibition without
> committing a breach of copyright", according to an explanatory memorandum of
> the legislation.
> 
> Copyright on Joyce's works ran out on December 31st, 1991, 50 years after his
> death. However, EU regulations revived copyright from July 1995 when it
> extended the lifetime of copyright to 70 years.

something for everyone.

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