[Gllug] Black day

[Jason Clifford]

On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Doug Winter wrote:

> http://www.hmso.gov.uk/acts/acts1988/Ukpga_19880048_en_21.htm
> > 301.    The provisions of Schedule 6 have effect for conferring on
> > trustees for the benefit of the Hospital for Sick Children, Great
> > Ormond Street, London, a right to a royalty in respect of the public
> > performance, commercial publication, broadcasting or inclusion in a
> > cable programme service of the play "Peter Pan" by Sir James Matthew
> > Barrie, or of any adaptation of that work, notwithstanding that
> > copyright in the work expired on 31st December 1987.
> 
> This is however unique, and I rather like it myself, if only for it's
> peculiarity :)

I very much do NOT like it.

It sets a precedent such that at any future time a work or body or works 
that has gone into the public domain may be "stolen" in this manner.

Jason Clifford
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