Isn it true that the GOSH has a perpetual copyright on Peter Pan?
Yes, on the play, but only in the United Kingdom. By a special statute, the UK Parliament has granted the GOSH a perpetual “right to a royalty” for “the public performance, commercial publication, broadcasting or inclusion in a cable programme service” of “the play ‘Peter Pan’ … or of any adaptation of that work….” But again, that right exists in the UK, and we are defending Emily’s right to distribute her work in the United States.
