James Joyce's heir: impeding scholarship

In the June 19 New Yorker, D.T. Max has this article: The Injustice Collector. Is James Joyce's grandson suppressing scholarship? The piece recounts how Stephen Joyce, who lives in France, has destroyed some of the papers and letters his grandfather wrote, and now attempts to impede scholarly works by rejecting every request to quote from unpublished letters that comes his way.

Unconscionable.

Meantime, Lawrence Lessig reports:

The Stanford Center for Internet and Society’s Fair Use Project has filed a law suit against Stephen Joyce, who claims the right to control access to the papers and letters of James Joyce. The context of the suit is described well in this article appearing in the New Yorker by D. T. Max. The complaint in the case can be found here.

This is the first in what we expect will be a series of cases defending the boundaries of fair use. Stay tuned.