Re: copyright under stress

On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Timothy Phillips <hrothgar[_at_]telepath.com> wrote:
>
> The Joyce estate refused permission to a composesr to set
> 18 words from "Finnegans Wake" to music, according to this
> article.

Kate Bush wrote a song based on the Molly Bloom soliloquy from Joyce's "Ulysses"; she sought permission from the Joyce estate to release it, and was refused. She rewrote the lyrics and released the song as "The Sensual World." Some vestiges of the original lyrics are still in the song.

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