James Joyce Estate Agrees to Pay Plaintiff’s Fees in Fair Use Dispute

The estate of author James Joyce has agreed to pay $240,000 in legal costs incurred by a Stanford University scholar following a fair use legal battle over a book about Joyce's daughter. The settlement ends more than a decade of wrangling and brings to a close one of the more prominent academic fair use cases in recent years, which garnered interest partly due to the Joyce estate's aggressive approach to protecting copyrighted material.

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