The Walt Disney Co. and Clare Milne, the heir of Winnie the Pooh author A.A. Milne, Tuesday filed a lawsuit seeking a court ruling that Milne can terminate the North American merchandising rights ...

Aiming to safeguard its $1 billion-a-year “Winnie the Pooh” franchise, Disney on Monday announced a new agreement with the heirs of A.A. Milne and E.H. Shepard, the book’s author and illustrator. The ...

Walt Disney Co. disclosed Monday what could become the legal equivalent of getting stuck in a honey jar for a Florida company locked in a battle over hundreds of millions of dollars in royalties from ...

LOS ANGELES — Top Walt Disney Co. executives knew by the mid-1960s that the company would encounter problems reaping all of the profits from its broad strategy for commercializing the Winnie the Pooh ...

As part of its campaign to secure more rights to the Winnie the Pooh characters, Walt Disney Co. asked a federal judge in Los Angeles to recognize the termination of U.S. copyrights held by the ...

A US court is about to hear exactly how valuable Winnie the Pooh and his friends in the Hundred Acre Wood are. Disney has paid tens of millions to these participants. They have become enormously ...