Re: UK copyright

From: David Swarbrick <david[_at_]swarb.demon.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 07:21:28 GMT

Robert Madden <rmadden[_at_]keene.edu> wrote:
>
> We have been asked by a faculty member what the duration of copyright
> is in the United Kingdom. I have seen some statements here in the past,
> including the fact that some works (Peter Pan & the King James Bible)
> enjoy perpetual copyright protection. Are there others, and what is the
> general length of protection?

So far as I know, it is only Peter Pan, whose copyright royalties have been given to support a children's hospital in London.

Otherwise the period was reecntly extended for mainstream works to Life+70 years.

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