Peter Pan copyright

JM Barrie gifted the rights to Peter Pan – both the novelisations and the play – to Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity (GOSH Charity) in 1929. The original copyright expired in the UK and Europe in 1987, 50 years after JM Barrie’s death. However, an amendment to the Copyright Designs and Patents Act in 1988 granted GOSH Charity unique rights to royalties from stage performances, adaptations, publications, audiobooks, ebooks, radio broadcast, television programmes and films. This ensures that Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) continues to benefit from Barrie’s gift, helping to make the hospital extraordinary for even more patients and families.  

If you would like to know more about what royalties are due to GOSH Charity from the production of your play, pantomime or school performance, please visit our GOSH Charity website.  

If you are a publisher who would like to publish an edition of Peter Pan, or a film or television content producer who would like to use Peter Pan in your production, please contact our literary and entertainment agent, The Blair Partnership. 

In all other territories in the world Peter Pan has now entered public domain. However, if you are from outside of the UK and would still like to support GOSH Charity through the use of Peter Pan, please do contact us.  

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