Re: copyright by successors of Barrie J.M.

On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Jessica R. Friedman <jrfriedman[_at_]earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> 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.)

Since J.M. Barrie died in 1937, this is one of the works "stolen" from the public domain with the copyright extension in 1995 (when it was already PD). As it Peter Pan was published before 1922, it should be liberated in the U.S. already -- it is available freely from Project Gutenberg, including Project Gutenberg mirrors in the UK (these mirrors totally seem to ignore the copyright issue, which would be futile anyway, as it is just as easy to download texts from the original US sites)

This leads me to the question whether people in the US can be held liable for copyright infringement in the EU, if they offer works PD in the US, but protected in the EU on a web site accessible from the EU, or if I, as an EU citizen, while on a holiday in the US, set up a web site with such works.

Jeroen Hellingman
<jehe[_at_]kabelfoon.nl> Received on Thu Jul 27 2000 - 17:03:09 GMT