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Thu 05 May 2004Emergency law to prevent copyright threat to Joyce showThe Government is bringing emergency legislation before the Seanad today to ensure that a major exhibition of James Joyce's work is not blocked by a copyright dispute.The Government paid €12.6 million in 2001 for more than 500 sheets written by Joyce, including drafts of eight episodes of Ulysses as well as proofs of Finnegans Wake. The material will form the centrepiece of the National Library's James Joyce and Ulysses exhibition, due to open on June 14th. The biggest staged by the National Library, it will mark Bloomsday 1904, the day on which the events described in Ulysses take place.