Peter Pan and Tinker Bell in court battle
Canadian author Emily Somma has filed a lawsuit in San Francisco claiming the characters in Peter Pan, including Tinker Bell, Wendy and Captain Hook, are now in the public domain and no longer protected by a copyright awarded to Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children in 1929.
The suit is a pre-emptive move in anticipation of legal action by the London hospital, which currently holds the copyright to Peter Pan.
