{"id":1986,"date":"2011-04-26T14:47:10","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T19:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=1986"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:11:29","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:11:29","slug":"copyright-as-censorship-after-22-years-joyce-estate-finally-lets-kate-bush-use-lyrics-she-wanted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/26\/copyright-as-censorship-after-22-years-joyce-estate-finally-lets-kate-bush-use-lyrics-she-wanted\/","title":{"rendered":"Copyright As Censorship: After 22 Years, Joyce Estate Finally Lets Kate Bush Use Lyrics She Wanted"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s no secret that the James Joyce estate has been ridiculously overprotective<\/a> when it comes to Joyce’s copyright. Of course, a lot of Joyce’s works are quickly approaching the public domain in various places (and some are already there), and so the estate may be losing its control. Still, it’s nice to see that the estate finally “agreed” to one usage. Glyn Moody<\/a> points us to the news that after an astounding 22 years<\/em> of asking, singer Kate Bush has finally been allowed to use Molly Bloom\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s famous soliloquy from Ulysses<\/a> as lyrics for a song. She had first asked in 1989… and was denied. She wrote different lyrics instead, but kept asking the estate. Perhaps realizing that (in the UK) the work was going into the public domain next year, the estate finally relented.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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It’s no secret that the James Joyce estate has been ridiculously overprotective when it comes to Joyce’s copyright. Of course, a lot of Joyce’s works are quickly approaching the public domain in various places (and some are already there), and so the estate may be losing its control. Still, it’s nice to see that the … Continue reading Copyright As Censorship: After 22 Years, Joyce Estate Finally Lets Kate Bush Use Lyrics She Wanted<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[373,122,374,372,375],"class_list":["post-1986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","tag-censorhsip","tag-copyright","tag-joyce","tag-katebush","tag-ulysses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1986"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10156,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986\/revisions\/10156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}