On Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:40:26 -0500, Marc Klein <ezriel.kl
...@gmail.com>
wrote:
>On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 06:52:51 +0800, steve@[127.0.0.1] (Stephen X.
>Carter) wrote:
>>On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 07:34:29 -0700 (PDT), The Arranger
>><recur...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>No, there's no copyright to material that old in the UK, or anywhere
>>>else, I believe.
>>Not yet. :-)
>>The one exception to the rule that I'm aware of is that of the Peter Pan
>>story/play. I believe that the UK parliament passed special legislation
>>endowing the rights (etc) in perpetuity to Great Ormond Street Hospital
>>for Sick Children.
>PETER PAN is now public domain in the UK. The copyright expired at
>the end of 2007.
>This is why Alan Moore's LOST GIRLS was unable to be published in the
>UK until 2008, as it starred Wendy Darling.
>Publishers of the King James Version of the Bible require a royal
>patent in the UK, even though the text is public domain.
Hmmmm.... further research shows that I was not quite as wrong as I had
thought...
From <http://www.gosh.org/about-us/peter-pan/peter-pan-copyright/>
The Great Ormond Street's own web site.....
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Peter Pan Copyright
J M Barrie’s gift of the rights to Peter Pan has provided a vital source
of income to Great Ormond Street Hospital ever since they were given to
the hospital in 1929.
The copyright first expired in 1987, 50 years after Barrie’s death, but
former Prime Minister Lord Callaghan successfully proposed an amendment
to the Copyright Designs & Patents Act of 1988, giving Great Ormond St
the unique right to royalties from stage performances of Peter Pan (and
any adaptation of the play) as well as from publications of the story of
Peter Pan, in perpetuity. (CDPA 1988, Schedule 6, Section 301).
In 1996 copyright term was extended to 70 years after the author’s death
throughout the European Union, which meant Peter Pan enjoyed revived
copyright until 31 December 2007, after which it entered the public
domain in Europe. The CDPA (of 1988 (see above) will therefore prevail
from now on in the UK so that GOSH will continue enjoying the benefit of
Barrie’s gift.
Thanks to different legislation in the US, the play (and stage
adaptations) is in copyright there until 2023.
Royalties
This means that whenever a performance of Peter Pan is staged or a book
published, a royalty is payable to Great Ormond Street Hospital
Children’s Charity.
For information about stage performances (whether professional or
amateur) in the UK and US, please contact our theatre agents listed
here.
For school performances in the UK, please contact peter...@gosh.org or
scho...@gosh.org. If you would like to stage a production in your school
or youth group in the UK, the licence fee will be waived if you are
raising funds for Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity.
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