Here is a Miami-Herald article that describes U.S. District Court Judge Florence-Marie Cooper's amendment to her own ruling made a while ago that Clare Milne, the granddaughter of Pooh author A.A. Milne, couldn't regain her rights to Pooh from the Sleisinger family. With this new ruling, Cooper gives Clare Milne the opportunity now to appeal that decision to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals and, if she wins, could regain rights to the Pooh works from the Sleisingers by November 2004.
Clare Milne has already made an agreement with Disney that if she was to regain her family's rights to the Pooh works, that she would hand all rights to Disney. The earlier decision completely forbidded her to do this, but now that same judge feels there is "substantial ground for a difference of opinion", which may indicate that the appeal may in fact go in favor of Clare Milne, granting Pooh back to her, and thus all to Disney.
This Pooh case just keeps getting more interesting
Clare Milne has already made an agreement with Disney that if she was to regain her family's rights to the Pooh works, that she would hand all rights to Disney. The earlier decision completely forbidded her to do this, but now that same judge feels there is "substantial ground for a difference of opinion", which may indicate that the appeal may in fact go in favor of Clare Milne, granting Pooh back to her, and thus all to Disney.
This Pooh case just keeps getting more interesting