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Top Shelf Settles Peter Pan Copyrights Case

By Hervé St.Louis
Nov 3, 2006 - 7:13
Top Shelf Productions and the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children have reached an out of court agreement concerning the publishing of Alan Moore’s and Melinda Gebbie’s Lost Girls in the United Kingdom and the European Union. The Hospital has alleged, in the past that Lost Girls infringed on its copyrights over Peter Pan. Peter Pan was ceded by author J.M. Barrie after his death in 1937.

Top Shelf Productions will voluntarily withhold the distribution and sale of Lost Girls in the United Kingdom and the United Kingdom until January 1, 2008, after the copyrights of Peter Pan have lapsed and returned to the public. In the United Kingdom, copyrights can be held by the descendants or inheritors of the creative work of a known author 70 years after his death at the end of the calendar year.

Last Updated: Jan 7, 2012 - 7:41
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