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Article: Great Ormond Street fights US lawyers for rights over Peter Pan The children's hospital could lose heavily in the battle over an unauthorised version of JM Barrie's tale.
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- The Independent on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 5, 2003
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Even the battles in Neverland between Peter Pan and his arch-
rival Captain Hook were never quite this nasty.
In a court in far off San Francisco, Britain's most famous
children's hospital is fighting one of the world's leading law
schools for control over the Land of Everlasting Youth.
At stake are the lucrative rights owned by Great Ormond Street
Hospital in London to royalties from Peter Pan under a secretive
bequest to the hospital by his creator, the Scottish author Sir James
Barrie.
The hospital's copyright, which came into force on his death in
1937 and still covers Europe and the United States, is being
challenged in a Californian court by Emily Somma, a little-known
Canadian ...