The original ‘80s Muppet Babies cartoon is a licensing nightmare these days thanks to its regular use of clips from popular movies (and it’s not like we’d ever see a world where one massive company ...
A U.S. district judge has ruled that original Muppet Babies writer Jeffrey Scott and his bankruptcy trustee Howard Ehrenberg may pursue their lawsuit against the company, turning down a bid by The ...
Jeffrey Scott accused Disney of stealing work from original show Court says Scott sufficiently alleged copyright infringement, fraud (Reuters) - Walt Disney Co has lost a bid to dismiss a Los Angeles ...
The order follows recent directives by a federal appeals court not to dismiss copyright cases too early. By Winston Cho Muppet Babies, a reboot of the 1984 animated series of the same name, premiered ...
Disney escapes a copyright action over the reboot brought by a screenwriter for the 1980s original. By Eriq Gardner Former Legal Editor-at-Large A federal judge in California on Wednesday dismissed a ...
Jeffrey Scott, a screenwriter on the original 2d-animated Muppet Babies series, has lost a lawsuit targeting Disney’s recent reboot. He alleged that the new series infringed a production bible he ...
Muppet Babies revolves around five pre-schooler Muppets, Kermit, Piggy, Animal, Gonzo, Fozzie, and Summer Penguin spending their time together in a nursery under the care of a woman named Nanny, ...
TV reboots are a dime a dozen, but the ones that are worth the effort are far rarer. I’d easily add Disney Junior’s Muppet Babies into that upper echelon, even if the target audience demographic is ...