Peter and the Starcatchers rights?

[mikey2573]

Please settle an argument.  Does GOSH's PETER PAN GIFT get any money from this series of novels? My understanding was that they did not and that is why GOSH hired an author to write PETER PAN IN SCARLET. Yet, according to this site  http://www.peterandthestarcatchers.co.uk/about_book.html  they published STARCATHCERS with direct permission from GOSH and GOSH gets money for every book sold. Is this true?

[andrew]

You'd have to write to GOSH direct about this one, my guess being that they get a small voluntary royalty. P Pan went out of copyright in 2007 (= 70 years after Barrie's death in 1937). Contrary to popular opinion, the House of Lords did not place it in perpetual copyright - they have no such legal powers, and besides it would have set a confusing precedent.

[Westh76]

GOSH does get royalties from the PETER AND THE STARCATCHERS series published in the UK, because the publishers (Walker Books) had to obtain their permission whilst PETER PAN was still in copyright when the series first came out. The German publishers of the series also had to enter into an agreement with GOSH.  The US publisher Hyperion however do not pay royalties and nor would publishers from countries where the copyright has expired.