joe_plastic's Journal: Schloss v. Stephen Joyce -- Long-lived Copyright Vs. History

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 New Yorker and Glyn Moody have written about the incident. a complaint for declaratory judgment and injunctive relief has been filed in the northern district of California.
It's mostly about book (Lucia Joyce: To Dance in the Wake) and related website ability to quote from Joyce's works to provide backdrop of critical and analytical commentary. A version of the book with about 30 pages of material cut out of it was published in 2003.
Some of may have to do with the history of one of James Joyce children whom was in psychiatric care.
The Joyce family has also removed writtings from the National Library of Ireland and has in otherways obscured or destroyed historical records. This sounds like a poster-child case for one reason why overly long copyrights are bad for society.