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Tue 06 Jun 2010Ulysses phone app cleared after Apple backs down
THE BOOK was reviled for decades while a ban on the film was only lifted after 33 years and now a an iPad app for James Joyce’s Ulysseshas become the latest subject of controversy. A US publisher was forced by Apple to remove nude cartoon images from a comic-book version of the epic novel set in Dublin before the computer giant backed down last night.
Robert Berry, the illustrator of Ulysses Seen, said Apple specifically asked them to edit pages 35 and 37 of the comic-book app, which contained an image of a woman exposing her breasts.
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