Public Domain Status

Common copyright trap

Is Peter Pan free to use in the United Kingdom?

Ordinary United Kingdom copyright in J. M. Barrie's play has expired. A perpetual statutory royalty can still be payable to Great Ormond Street Hospital.

Reviewed 2026-09-11. Jurisdiction and edition matter.

Layered answer

Check each right separately

01

Ordinary copyright

The ordinary copyright term has ended.

02

Hospital royalty

Schedule 6 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 preserves a royalty right for qualifying uses in the United Kingdom.

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