[Gllug] Black day

rich at annexia.org rich at annexia.org
Thu Jan 16 17:09:35 UTC 2003


On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 05:06:39PM +0000, Dylan wrote:
> But the copyright on Peter Pan was not /stolen/! JM Barrie left it GOS 
> hospital in his will - the 1988 law simply makes sure that that situation 
> remains. How can you not like performance rights payments going to support a 
> hospital?

Perhaps it's the responsibility of the taxpayer to maintain hospitals?

Rich.

(Actually I also like this peculiarity of copyright law, provided it
is never extended to other works).

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