The publishers of a cleaned up "reader friendly" edition of James Joyce's masterpiece Ulysses were accused in court of copyright infringement and "passing-off".
Lawyers for the trustees of the author's estate told a High Court judge in London on Tuesday that the 1997 publication contained material, which Joyce had not included in the final draft of his "stream of consciousness" novel, first published in Paris in 1922.
Mr John Baldwin QC said the 1997 book, edited by Irish scholar, Mr Danis Rose, and published by Picador under the Macmillan imprint, was being "passed off as something which it is not".
Copyright in the 1922 original expired 50 years after the author's death in 1941. But Joyce's unused manuscript material was still protected by copyright extending 50 years from the date of its publication.
The hearing was adjourned until today.