The James Joyce estate has been granted a High Court interlocutory injunction against Cork University Press, restraining it from infringing copyright on all works by the writer who died in Zurich in 1941. Today, Mr Justice Thomas Smyth also granted the Joyce estate an order stopping the Cork University Press from passing off or attempting to pass off a work not authorised by the estate in the name of James Joyce or under the title of Ulysses.
The restraining orders, pending the trial of the action between the parties, were granted by the judge after a two-day hearing last week. The Joyce estate claimed that a new anthology of Irish writing in the 20th century, published by Cork University press, contained an extract from an amended version of Ulysses published in 1997 by a Joycean scholar.
