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Entertainment & Sports

May 3, 2003

Copyright Ruling Goes Against Disney in Latest Chapter of Pooh Saga

Column By Garry Abrams - A federal judge Thursday torpedoed the Walt Disney Co.'s copyright termination bid in the Winnie the Pooh royalty-dispute case, perhaps the most complicated, longest-running, hardest-fought, highly publicized, over-lawyered lawsuit in the history of lovable, lucrative, litigable children's characters.

        Column
        
        By Garry Abrams
        
        LOS ANGELES - A federal judge Thursday torpedoed the Walt Disney Co.'s copyright termination bid in the Winnie the Pooh royalty-dispute case, perhaps the most complicated, longest-runnin...

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