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Suit Filed Over ‘Fantasia’: A British music publishing house has sued Walt Disney Co. for $200 million, claiming that the release of the movie “Fantasia” on video broke a 1939 deal over use of Igor Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring” in the film. The Manhattan U.S. District Court suit, brought by Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Ltd., accuses Disney of illegally extending the right it had purchased for $6,000 to use the music. The suit is similar to a claim made by singer Peggy Lee that she was entitled to damages from Disney because she co-wrote six songs and was the voice of four characters in the 1955 animated film “Lady and the Tramp.” Disney had no comment.
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