Gerard Leahy’s Comments

• Mar 21st, 2011 @ 2:41pm

  Re:

  on James Joyce Estate Sends Takedown For Joyce Quote In DNA
  Presume you are speaking in jest here ? - since of course Joyce nicked little if anything from Homer. Usually Joyce the magpie purloined and plundered from everywhere and anywhere including from the great plunderer Shakespeare but always sufficient to weave a garment richly allusional to provide a blanket of hommage to touch and unpick with pleasure and wonder.
• Mar 21st, 2011 @ 2:30pm

  Re: Mike

  on James Joyce Estate Sends Takedown For Joyce Quote In DNA
  Clearly you are correct in that you have (properly I would say)ridiculed it. Technically I suppose whether it is ridiculous or not has no bearing on the merits of the case .
• Mar 21st, 2011 @ 2:27pm

  Re: John

  on James Joyce Estate Sends Takedown For Joyce Quote In DNA
  Attribution may not always be sufficient - since the charge is not so much that of "passing off" so much as it is for using it in the first place - length of quote may also be relevant.
  
  Gerard Leahy