Joyce estate mounts court challenge to 'cleaned-up' Ulysses

The publishers of a cleaned up "reader-friendly" edition of James Joyce’s masterpiece Ulysses were today accused in court of copyright infringement and "passing-off".

Lawyers for the trustees of the author’s estate told a British High Court judge that the 1997 publication contained material, including punctuation and correct spelling, which Joyce had not included in the final draft of his "stream of consciousness" novel, first published in Paris in 1922.