[Fsfe-ie] Copyright Developments

[Justin Mason]

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I get the impression it was worse than that, actually -- that the Irish
govt collection of Joyce memorabilia, original manuscripts etc., were OK
to display in exhibition, even with the Joyce estate owning copyright on
them, under the pre-2000 legislation.

However, the Copyright Act of 2000 increased copyright-holders' powers, so
that they gained extra rights -- including blocking the display of these
artifacts that the government supposedly *owned*.

- --j.

teresahackett at eircom.net writes:
> That's right. The material would be out of copyright if we still had
> 50yrs, but the 70yrs means it's still in force. According to the press,
> in previous years, RTE had to cancel Joyce readings and the Abbey
> Theatre had to cancel a performance for the same reason. We can only use
> it to strengthen our case.
>
> th
> 
> > 
> > Yep, that sounds like it was pretty hilarious.  I blogged (ugh) it at
> > http://taint.org/2004/06/16/233425a.html as follows:
> > 
> >   Reportedly, the Dail even had to pass emergency legislation last week to
> >   prevent an exhibition at Dublin's National Library from being sued by
> >   the Joyce Estate:
> > 
> >       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. 
> > 
> >   Hilarious. Recent overzealous copyright extension legislation snares
> >   governments too! But they get to rewrite the laws in emergency session
> >   to fix it ;)
> > 
> > - --j.
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