Stigweird85 t1_je9v1f0 wrote on March 30, 2023 at 1:53 PM

Reply to comment by [deleted] in TIL a special law in the UK was created to ensure that the Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital will forever be able to collect royalties from stage performances, audiobooks, book releases, etc. of Peter Pan in the UK. This is the only work with an 'exception' to copyright laws. by [deleted]

Pulled from my arse

https://edition.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/books/10/13/peter.pan/

Even on GOSH own website they distinguished that the copyright applies in the UK only.

Disney got a lot of bad press for not honoring the tradition - it's a childrens hospital for crying out loud maybe it occurred prior to the new partnership in 2008 but I remember reading that despite owning Peter Pan that GOSH didn't get royalties on DVD sales or merchandise since these concepts didn't exist at the time. - A wide held belief at the time was this is why there was such a push on Tinkerbell and the fairies since they were somewhat original IPs created by Disney

I would be curious if Disney intend to pay anything for the new Peter Pan and Wendy film. Pan is out of copyright but you can't argue that GOSH shouldn't get something

Stigweird85 t1_je9gdx5 wrote on March 30, 2023 at 11:50 AM

Reply to TIL a special law in the UK was created to ensure that the Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital will forever be able to collect royalties from stage performances, audiobooks, book releases, etc. of Peter Pan in the UK. This is the only work with an 'exception' to copyright laws. by [deleted]

You can thank Disney for this - but not for good reason. Traditionally any versions of Peter Pan should pay a fee to GOSH but Disney being Disney argued that because JM Barrie didn't explicitly state that GOSH should benefit from media types that didn't exists at the time that they didn't have to pay.