{"id":1356,"date":"2002-01-19T11:20:55","date_gmt":"2002-01-19T16:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=1356"},"modified":"2014-11-10T13:20:37","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T20:20:37","slug":"oh_pooh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/01\/19\/oh_pooh.html","title":{"rendered":"Oh, Pooh!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of Soulless Corporate Monsters, Disney may be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-000004565jan18.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dbusiness%2Dmanual\">in trouble<\/a> with its Winnie-the-Pooh franchise.  Seems a smaller company claims to have purchased the rights from the Milne family back in the 1930s, and is making progress in its claim that Disney owes it hundreds of millions of dollars in royalties.<\/p>\n<p>Given Disney&#8217;s often-heavy-handed tactics against those who it considers to be infringing on its copyrights, there&#8217;s a rather pleasant irony here.<\/p>\n<p>Disney&#8217;s case hasn&#8217;t been helped by its Anderson-like destruction of boxes of documents, including one labeled &#8220;Winnie the Pooh&#8211;legal problems.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"block\">&#8220;There is no proof that the documents destroyed were evidence,&#8221; said Disney&#8217;s lead attorney Daniel Petrocelli. &#8220;These were old meaningless papers destroyed by people in Disney&#8217;s records management department who had no knowledge of any lawsuit. No harm, no foul.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Uh, yeah.  Right.<\/p>\n<p><small>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2002_01_01_archive.html#8830828\">Boing Boing<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of Soulless Corporate Monsters, Disney may be in trouble with its Winnie-the-Pooh franchise. 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