Re: copyright by successors of Barrie J.M.

On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Ewan Kirk <ewan.j.kirk[_at_]solent.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie is subject to a perpetual copyright in favour
> of the Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, according to s301 of
> the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 in the UK:
>
> "301. The provisions of Schedule 6 have effect for conferring
> on trustees for the benefit of the Hospital for Sick Children,
> Great Ormond Street, London, a right to a royalty in respect of
> the public performance, commercial publication, broadcasting or
> inclusion in a cable programme service of the play 'Peter Pan'
> by Sir James Matthew Barrie, or of any adaptation of that work,
> notwithstanding that copyright in the work expired on 31
> December 1987."
>
> Schedule 6 lays down rules for interpretation, entitlement to royalty
> (the right exists only as long as Great Ormond Street Hospital exists)
> and a procedure for determining the amount payable. Royalties are to
> be paid to the hospital trustees.

Isn't such a regulation against the copyright directive of the EU, and one of the idosynchrosities the "harmonization" of copyright tried to get rid off? It seems to me a most insane law, to have special regulations for specific works.

Jeroen

Jeroen Hellingman
<jehe[_at_]kabelfoon.nl> Received on Wed Jul 26 2000 - 15:47:10 GMT