I can't even begin to plumb the layers of irony in this one.

Disney may find itself on the receiving end of a lawsuit filed by Great Ormond Street. This is the children's hospital (in the UK) that holds the copyrights to the Peter Pan character and material. Disney's subsidiary Hyperion Books published a Peter Pan "prequel" called Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson. (Yes, that Dave Barry.)

Ormond Street argues that it was given sole control of the character in 1929 by J.M. Barrie. See for example Finding Neverland, which has its UK premiere this week. Ormond Street will get royalties for scenes from Peter Pan that are portrayed in the film.

By contrast, they get nothing from the Hyperion book. Why? Because Disney is claiming that Peter Pan went out of copyright in the US. The copyright expired before the (get ready for it) Copyright Extension Act of 1998 went into effect. You remember copyright extension, don't you? Disney's pet project for protecting The Mouse and the public domain be damned.

So now we get to watch the all-American nice family company gouge money from sick kids over a technicality in intellectual property law. God is an iron.