The rights of Pooh: There was once a corporation called Disney and a corporation called Slesinger and they didn't know how to share. They argued and they argued over who owned the rights to a fat and oh-so juicy piece of intellectual property called Winnie-the-Pooh. Despite their differences, however, they both agreed on one fundamental point. Pooh should never ever be allowed to wander off into the great big public domain by himself. If that happened, who would enjoy all the lovely, sticky, runny revenue that Pooh was so good at generating? [CNN].

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