Fergus Cassidy

Icing on the cake yesterday for author Carol Shloss in her long-running copyright case against the estate of James Joyce.

After a ten-year battle with the estate, Shloss established her right to publish material related to a book she wrote called Lucia Joyce: To Dance in the Wake.

Yesterday the US District Court ruled on an application by Shloss for costs and fees. Shloss' legal team had argued that  "the best way to deter the Estate of James Joyce's repeated and unrepentant bad actions is to award attorney’s fees to Shloss".

The court granted the motion for attorney fees and costs.

Commenting on the ruling, Anthony Falzone of the Stanford Law School, which represented Shloss, said that the "amount of fees to be awarded is still to be determined, but we hope this demonstrates that inadequate respect for fair use's critical role in scholarly inquiry and free expression can have substantial and serious consequences". 

This entry was posted on Thursday, 31 May 2007 at 11:57 pm and is filed under Shloss v Joyce copyright case.