Scottish author J.M. Barrie's "Peter Pan" had bequeathed all rights to "Peter Pan" to the hospital in 1929. as to the article copyrights expires after the 70 years of authors death. This is the law or the way author had handed over the rights ? http://www.realitytvworld.com/news/...putting-property-in-public-domain-1013817.php .
I wonder why they didn't renew the copyright... Interesting it expires after 70 years, music in the United States expires after 50.
Peter pan is awesome, Never knew it was scottish...hey, you learn something new everyday. I used to watch Peter Pan all the time when i was young seeminly that was what i made me and my Dad watch when i was around 3 Never thought it was that old though....
It expires 70 years after death of author. But whomever holds the rights whether descendants, relatives or otherwise who inherited the rights can renew.
Some copyright inaccuracies: Copyright lasts for 120 years - in the US, this is true only under certain conditions. When a work's author cannot be established, then the copyright term lasts 95 years from publication or 120 years from the date of creation (whichever is shorter). So that only applies to anonymous works. Music expires after 50 years in the US - this is false. The US does not have different copyright lengths for different types of media. Music copyright lasts as long as copyright on literature. The shortest term would be for music registered/published before 1978. They would have had an original term of 28 years with an additional extensions of 67 years for 95 years total. This same formaul applied to literary works created before that time. Anything made during or after 1978 has copyright of 70 after the death of the last surviving author. In the UK (Great Britain), sound recordings only have a copyright of 50 years (though the score, sheet music, has a term of life + 70 years). The rights owners can extend the copyright after the 70 year term - this is false. This is a confusion of the two different rules in the US for copyright based on when the work was created. Works that were published/registered in the US before 1978 had a set number of years that copyright protection applied (28). When the 28 years were about up, the owner of the copyright could apply for an extension (originally another 28 years and then to 47 years in 1976 and then to 67 years in 1998). When the US changed to the life + 70 years they removed extensions altogether. So anything that is in the life + 70 cannot be extended after the copyright expires. Furthermore, this work would be copyrighted in the UK which has never had extensions because there is no formal registration system for copyright in the UK.