Re: copyright under stress

On Tue, Jun 13, 2000, Timothy Phillips <hrothgar[_at_]telepath.com> (me) wrote:
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> The entire continent of Europe was denied access to Deborah Warner's
> interpretation of Beckett's "Footfalls":

The Joyce estate refused permission to a composesr to set 18 words from "Finnegans Wake" to music, according to this article.

   http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/newsfeatures/2000/0610/newsfea10.htm

Even rightsholder eccentricities such as those described in the article would be more bearable if the term of copyright were set to a shorter, more reasonable length.

Tim Phillips
<hrothgar[_at_]telepath.com> Received on Thu Jun 29 2000 - 23:43:31 GMT