A Joycean scholar who alleged breach of copyright of his work carried out over years analysing the notebooks of James Joyce has settled his High Court action.
Danis Rose, Strawberry Beds, Dublin, was described as having cracked the literary code to Joyce’s novel Finnegans Wake, in his analysis of Joyce’s notebooks.
He alleged breach of his copyright in proceedings brought against Belgian book publishers Brepols; literary scholar Vincent Deane of Anna Villa, Ranelagh, Dublin; and Joyce expert Prof Geert Lernout of the University of Antwerp. The defendants denied the claims.
On the sixth day of the action yesterday, Dr Michael Forde SC, for Mr Rose, told Ms Justice Mary Laffoy the parties had reached agreement, the case had been settled and could be struck out. No details of the settlement were given.
The case centred on the alleged copyright of Mr Rose’s analysis of the Joyce notebooks, work he began in the 1970s and continued over many years. Fifty of Joyce’s notebooks are held in the University of New York, Buffalo.
The dispute arose from a commentary published in four volumes titled James Joyce, the Finnegans Wake Notebooks at Buffalo, in 2001.