Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 J. M. Barrie, had given his copyright to the hospital in 1929, later confirmed in his will. Although often incorrectly referred to as a perpetual copyright, it does not confer Great Ormond Street Hospital full intellectual property rights over the work. The amendment was proposed when Peter Pan's copyright first expired on 31 December 1987, 50 years after Barrie's death, which was the copyright term at that time. Following EU legislation extending the term to author's life + 70 years, Peter Pan's copyright was revived in 1996 and expired on 31 December 2007 in the UK, where Great Ormond Street
Frederic John Poynton Great Ormond Street Hospital in 1900, and at University College Hospital (UCH) in 1903. He married Alice Constance Campbell-Orde, daughter of Sir John William Powlett Campbell-Orde in December 1904. UCH appointed him as a full physician in 1910. During the First World War, he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps as a captain. In 1919 he was appointed as a full physician as Great Ormond Street, and over the following years he attempted to secure the site of the Foundling Hospital, which has recented relocated, so that Great Ormond Street could expand. He failed in this endeavour, but these