Archives for January 2003

Plenty of Deals An official welcome back and Happy New Year to everyone. There are lots of deal reports to catch up on, with many new ones recently arrived, including film deals for fiction and non-fiction, a big first fiction sale in the UK already sparking worldwide interest, our times as seen through the lens of Today Show, the Wiseguy’s sequel, a bio of the man the FBI considered the most powerful lawyer around, fiction from a Paris Review Discovery winner, and much more. Take yourself up on that New Year’s resolution to join PublishersMarketplace and take full advantage of […]

Canadian Author Challenges US Copyright in Peter Pan Emily Somma, author of AFTER THE RAIN: A New Adventure for Peter Pan, recently published in Canada, has filed a pre-emptive suit in Calfornia to protect her book, asserting that the characters in Peter Pan are now part of the public domain. The question is whether Sir James M. Barrie’s copyright, which he gave to the Great Ormand Street Hospital for Sick Children in London, would have expired 50 years after his death, in 1987. A lawyer for the hospital says the 1976 copyright extension act protects the work until 2023. Somma […]

Canadian Author Challenges US Copyright in Peter Pan Emily Somma, author of AFTER THE RAIN: A New Adventure for Peter Pan, recently published in Canada, has filed a pre-emptive suit in Calfornia to protect her book, asserting that the characters in Peter Pan are now part of the public domain. The question is whether Sir James M. Barrie’s copyright, which he gave to the Great Ormand Street Hospital for Sick Children in London, would have expired 50 years after his death, in 1987. A lawyer for the hospital says the 1976 copyright extension act protects the work until 2023. Somma […]