[Gllug] Black day

[Dylan]

On Thursday 16 January 2003 17:20, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
> On Thu 16 Jan, Dylan bloviated thus:
> > 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?
>
> Because we live in a socialist society

We do? Where?

> where hospitals are supposed to be funded by taxation.

'Supposed' being the operative word

>
> And why only a London hospital and not a hospital in Newcastle?  Why
> only a childrens' hospital and not an aged care home?

Because that was the hospital he chose, for whatever reasons he had. Would you 
suggest, if I were to make a _personal_ charitable donation I should spread 
it evenly around, or give to my one chosen organisation?

>
> Exceptions are bad, but often politically expedient.  I can just
> imagine the Yes Minister-like prods that dissenting ministers got who
> objected to some other part of the bill:
>
> "But think of the kiddies, Minister.  You wouldn't like the papers to
>  say 'Hacker blocks kids hospital money' tomorrow, would you?"

But the exception was made because when the bequest was made the law held that 
the rights would be property of the hospital in perpetuity. The 1988 act 
changed that, so an exception is made to maintain the status quo. I can 
imagine the hospital trusties complaining about the (marginal) loss of 
income.

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