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Surely UK law doesn't carve out a special provision for Great Ormond Street to receive royalties for Peter Pan? Oh hang on, yes it apparently does: https://www.
by gnfargbl 3y ago
Surely UK law doesn't carve out a special provision for Great Ormond Street to receive royalties for Peter Pan? Oh hang on, yes it apparently does: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/schedule/6 https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/schedule/6
- masfuerte 3y agoThere's also a special law for IP related to the Olympics, though I think that's quite common internationally. Not that it makes it any better.
- zarzavat 3y agoAlso, perversely the KJV of the Bible has perpetual copyright in the UK. Not sure if God sees any of the royalties.
- bombcar 3y agoAt least arguably the Crown paid for that translation.
- orra 3y agoQuite. And if you'll excuse the pedantry, the KJV is patented, under a “letters patent” issued by The King. I point this out because these days the term patent almost always implies an invention. It's an interesting counterexample.
- helsinkiandrew 3y ago> Not sure if God sees any of the royalties God didn't write it - it was written by a committee of 47 scholars overseen by the Archbishop of Canterbury at the behest of King James the first, so the Church of England/UK State should get royalties. Although presumably most of the plot was copied from previous authors.