Re: Peter Pan

In-Reply-To: <sc21dbb1.064[_at_]LAW.WHITTIER.EDU> Tyler T. Ochoa
> According to William Patry's treatise Copyright Law and Practice (BNA
> 1994): "In 1988 Parliament granted the Hospital for Sick Children the
> right to receive royalties, without limitation as to duration, for 'the
> public performance, commercial publication, broadcasting or inclusion
> in a cable programming service' of Sir James Barrie's play 'Peter Pan,'
> even though copyright in the work had expired on December 31, 1987."
> He cites Section 301 of the UK Copyright, Designs and Patent Act of
> 1988.

That's the one. Schedule 6 to the 1988 Act contains the meat. Interestingly, the right granted to the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, is inalienable:  "The right of the trustees under this Schedule may not  be assigned and shall cease if the trustees purport to  assign or charge it."  

The whole Act is online at
  http://www.hmso.gov.uk/acts/acts1988/Ukpga_19880048_en_1.htm   

Patry omitted the words "or of any adaptation of that work" from his precis of S.301 - that'd seem to cover all of Barrie's versions.

Happy Hogmanay to all...

Mike Received on Sun Dec 23 2001 - 00:05:04 GMT