On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Ewan Kirk <ewan.j.kirk[_at_]solent.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> By way of correction to my last posting: the perpetual right mentioned
> in s.301 of the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 is not a full
> copyright, but merely a right to recieve royalties. Therefore it
> appears that the trustees of Great Ormond Street Hospital cannot object
> to any use of the work, but are merely entitled to a royalty from it.
Whether or not the right to receive royalties is perpetual, I believe the work is still in copyright in the UK, and the U.S. attorneys for the Hospital strenuously police uses of the work. (I used to work for that firm.)
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