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
H. S. Sington H. S. Sington Dr Harold Sigismund Sington FRSE (1878–1956) was a 20th century British physician and anaesthetist. He was born in Higher Broughton, Manchester on 31 October 1878 the son of Joseph George Sington (a civil engineer) and his wife, Mary Florence Straus. He was educated at Cheltenham College. He studied Medicine at Caius College, Cambridge University and did postgraduate studies in Brussels. His earliest posts were at St Thomas' Hospital in London. From 1907 onwards he was anaesthetist at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children in London. He held this post for over 30 years. He also worked