Great Ormond Street Hospital Barrie's copyright to the "Peter Pan" works, with the provision that the income from this source not be disclosed. This gave the institution control of the rights to these works, and entitled it to royalties from any performance or publication of the play and derivative works. Four theatrical feature films were produced, innumerable performances of the play have been presented, and numerous editions of the novel were published under licence from the hospital. Its trustees commissioned a sequel novel, "Peter Pan in Scarlet", which was published in 2006 and received mixed reviews, with a film adaptation planned. When the copyright
Copyright law of the United Kingdom film. A publication right only exists if the publisher of the work is an EEA national "and" the work is first published in an EEA country. However, no publication right can be applied to works in which Parliamentary or Crown copyright existed previously. Publication right lasts for 25 years from first publication. On rare occasions, intellectual property rights are granted in perpetuity. When the current UK copyright law was debated in Parliament, former Prime Minister Lord Callaghan of Cardiff successfully proposed an amendment granting Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children a right to payments of royalties for performances, publications and