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Professor Wins $240K In Fair Use Dispute
pickens writes "In a victory for Fair Use, Stanford Law School's Fair Use Project has announced that the estate of 20th century literary giant James Joyce, author of the landmark novel Ulysses, has agreed to pay $240,000 in attorneys' fees to Stanford University Consulting Professor Carol Shloss and her counsel in connection with Shloss's lawsuit to establish her right to use copyrighted material in her scholarship on the literary work of James Joyce. When Shloss used copyrighted materials in her biography of Joyce's daughter Lucia, titled Lucia Joyce: To Dance in the Wake, she had to excise a substantial amount of source material from the book in response to threats from the Joyce Estate. However following publication of the book, Shloss sued the Estate to establish her right to publish the excised material. The parties reached a settlement regarding the issue in 2007, permitting the publication of the copyrighted material in the US. Following the settlement, Shloss asked the Court to order the Estate to pay attorneys' fees of more than $400,000. She has now agreed to accept an immediate payment of $240,000 in return for the dismissal of the Estate's appeal. 'This case shows there are solutions to the problem Carol Shloss faced other than simple capitulation,' says Fair Use Project Executive Director Anthony Falzone, who led the litigation team."
I understand how hard it was for him to write his books. After all, it's not every author who decides to chuck the whole language and invent his own (I'm looking at you, Tolkien).
Anyway, here's some background for anyone unfamiliar with Joyce's works.
Wikipedia
Would you think less of Joyce if you agreed that he sacrificed the mental stability and well being of his daughter to complete a novel?
Heck, I sacrifice the mental stability and well being of my own daughter all the time, merely for my own amusement... We even gave her mental blocks for Xmas!
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
I mean, seriously. My regular rates.
Oh, and, of course there's this to back me up.
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
Yes - the solution is to be lucky enough to find a lawyer that's willing allow their bill to get up to $400,000 but settle for $240,000
Or instead of a lawyer, hire this guy.
Personally, if it has anything to do with James Joyce; I'll wait for the Cliff Notes.
The US government have made it clear that we have no inalienable rights; any we do not defend vigorously will be taken.
on the flip side, if Lucas wasn't still making money from the original trilogy, what other horrors do you think he'd have bestowed upon us?
How about stop buying Joyce's books?
There are plenty of other books to read and study.
Please tell that to the English teachers!
Try reading the Silmarillion - whenever I have trouble sleeping, I try to get through 20 pages of that stuff: out like a light.
"We returned the General to El Salvador, or maybe Guatemala, it's difficult to tell from 10,000 feet"
Mind boggling how that happens on a primarily science focused website isn't it...