Great Ormond Street Hospital first expired at the end of 1987 in the UK, 50 years after Barrie's death, the UK government's Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988 granted the hospital a perpetual right to collect royalties for public performances, commercial publication, or other communications to the public of the work but this does not constitute a true copyright. When copyright term itself was subsequently extended to the author's life plus 70 years by a European Union directive in 1996 standardising terms throughout the EU, GOSH revived its copyright of "Peter Pan" which then expired in 2007. The terms of the Copyright, Designs
Great Ormond Street (TV series) series "excellent" and added that "the sensitivity of [the] programme saved it from feeling voyeuristic". John Crace of The Guardian said that the documentary "exposed us to the existential questions that doctors face on a daily basis – and which most documentaries avoid", while Andrew Billen of The Times called it "extraordinarily frank". Jane Simon for The Daily Mirror said that the programme was "made with great sensitivity" and Paul Whitelaw, writing for The Scotsman called the series "A sensitive study of tragedy and hope". The second season started in May 2012. Great Ormond Street (TV series) Great Ormond Street