Copyright resources

Hey, Katie

In this case, and also in the J.D. Salinger case, which was apparently a big deal in the 1990s (I think), it's really about protecting legacy or privacy. So, it's actually a little bizarre because in those particular cases, copyright is just being used as an excuse (more or less) for restricting scholarly publishing on what authors or families of authors might deem to be private or sensitive topics. In the article I recommended, the kerfuffle wasn't even about James Joyce, but about another member of the Joyce family.

This sort of ties back to the issue of living authors (or living family of dead authors) jeopardizing the evidentiary value of archives, which you mentioned above. If you wanted to have a little section about the challenges around managing literary archives, you could include something about this (the nature of the artist / public figure wanting to present a particular view to the public), as well as perhaps something about the inflated cost of acquiring the fonds of literary superstars.