http://www.jenkins-ip.com/patlaw/cdpasc6.htm http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Pan Copyright status The government of the United Kingdom has enacted what amounts to a perpetual copyright (with a compulsory licence provision) on the works of the Peter Pan cycle. The exact phrasing is in section 301 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988: "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 31 December 1987." source: http://www.hmso.gov.uk/acts/acts1988/Ukpga_19880048_en_21.htm#mdiv301 "Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988" also pertains to: Devices designed to circumvent copy-protection. Offence of fraudulently receiving programmes. Fraudulent application or use of trade mark an offence.