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Literary scholars are familiar with the "Death of the Author," which Roland Barthes announced in 1968. But what happens when authors become undead and walk the earth in the surrogate body of the law? Taking the Estate of James Joyce as an illustrative case, Paul Saint-Amour, Associate Professor of English at Pomona College and the author of The Copywrights: Intellectual Property and the Literary Imagination (Cornell University Press: 2003), will explore the complex ramifications of lengthening post-mortem copyright terms in the U.S. and E.U. How does such copyright maximalism endow literary estates with powers of private censorship? How does it pit literary heirs against scholars, adaptors, and publishers in a graveside struggle over the legal corpus of the deceased author? How did copyright law, historically, become elevated to its present role of patrolling the border between the living and the dead? How would Joyce himself - a great parodist and magpie of fragments of the work of others - have fared on the altar of copyright? And what other aesthetic and ethical problems in contemporary intellectual property congregate at the author's tomb?
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