On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Robert Spoo <robert.spoo[_at_]yale.edu> wrote:
>
> The U.K. copyright in James Joyce's Ulysses was recently mentioned
> here in the context of the EU Directive that extended copyright
> protection "retrospectively," as the British say, to certain works.
> This indeed happened with Ulysses, which had fallen into the U.K.
> public domain in January 1992 and was pulled back into copyright in
> 1996. An Irish Joyce scholar, Danis Rose, published an Irish and
> British edition of Ulysses in 1997 under the "reliance" clause of the
> Directive, which provides that certain projects undertaken during the
> public-domain interval can be printed, with future printings to be
> negotiated with the copyright owner.
>
> List members may be interested in the even more complex situation
> of the American "copyright" in Ulysses, which I have recently argued
> never in fact existed (with a couple of minor exceptions) as a result
> of Joyce's inability to comply with the 1909 Act's manufacturing
> requirements. The question of the Ulysses copyright in America is
> especially urgent now that existing copyright terms have been extended
> by 20 years here. Those interested may wish to consult my Note,
> "Copyright Protectionism and Its Discontents: The Case of James Joyce
> Ulysses in America," YALE LAW JOURNAL, Vol. 108, No. 3 (December
> 1998), 633-67.
I definitely intend to read your Note, but isn't the original 1922 version of Ulysses in the public domain in the U.S. in any event because the copyright expired??
I understand that new material was added to later editions, and these would still be under copyright.
Stephen Fishman
<sfish55[_at_]yahoo.com>
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