After Milne's death in 1956, his widow sold her rights to the Pooh characters to the Walt Disney Company, which has made many Pooh cartoon movies, a Disney Channel television show, as well as Pooh-related merchandise.

In 1997, Borland sold Paradox to Corel, but – importantly – retained all development rights for the core BDE.

In July 1604, Cervantes sold the rights of El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha ( known as Don Quixote, Part I ) to the publisher-bookseller Francisco de Robles for an unknown sum.

Years later, Fawcett ironically sold the rights for Captain Marvel to DC — which in 1973 revived Captain Marvel in the new title Shazam!

In particular, the regenerative circuit, which Armstrong patented in 1914 as a " wireless receiving system ," was subsequently patented by Lee De Forest in 1916 ; De Forest then sold the rights to his patent to AT & T.

Reaching an impasse, De Laurentiis sold the rights to publishing mogul Angelo Rizzoli.

When John Beck sold the King Kong vs. Prometheus script to Toho ( which became King Kong vs. Godzilla ), he was given exclusive rights to produce a version of the film for release in non-Asian territories.

Henry Saperstein, who sold the theatrical rights to Bob Conn Enterprises, also released the film to television in late 1978, this time under the title Terror of Mechagodzilla.

However, this is usually not the case if the rights to sell the game outside its country of origin are sold to another publisher.

The rights to sell the game in English are often sold to separate companies.

Aroutcheff then sold on these rights only keeping the right to make Tintin's red rocket when he goes to the moon.

It was announced soon thereafter that the rights to the Harrison design were sold to another company to finish production of orders already placed.

On February 28, 2008, Cryptic Studios purchased the Champions intellectual property, and sold the rights back to Hero Games to publish the 6th edition books.

Since Robinson had sold exclusive rights to any retirement story to Look magazine two years previously, his retirement decision was revealed through the magazine, instead of through the Dodgers organization.

He sold the film rights for £ 25, 000 although he was certain it would flop.

In March 1990 it was revealed that Konix had sold the rights to sell their joystick range in the UK to Spectravision who also manufactured the rival QuickShot joystick range.

He did not get back to a stable financial situation for several years, after he sold the royalty rights to many of his earlier works, including The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

ArmaLite sold its rights to the AR-15 to Colt in 1959.

Exceptions include characters appearing on Sesame Street ( as they were previously sold to Sesame Workshop, although they have always had creative rights, only reimbursing The Jim Henson Company to create and provide their Muppet characters for their use ) and the Fraggles of Fraggle Rock ( which are still owned by the Jim Henson Company ).

Rust's return to Germany on 3 August 1988 was accompanied by huge media attention, but he did not talk to the assembled journalists ; his family had sold the exclusive rights to the story to the German magazine Stern for DM 100, 000.

This " strategy " of the gradual dismantling Paramount's assets and library has continued under current Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman who not only split the company in half and gave the television library and distribution rights to the feature films to CBS, but also sold off the Company's music library, Famous Music.

The rest of the post-September 1950 cartoons by Famous Studios that were released prior to April 1, 1962 ( except some special releases ) were sold to Harvey Comics, along with all rights to Famous ' characters Casper the Friendly Ghost, Little Audrey, Herman and Katnip, et al., in 1958, which were retitled " Harveytoons " for television distribution after 1959 ( beginning with their exposure on Matty's Funday Funnies ).

Bronston sold those rights to his creditors after he filed for bankruptcy.

To fund the release of the " redux " version, Paramount and Coppola sold the international rights ( to both the original and " redux " versions ) to a joint venture of Miramax Films and StudioCanal.

* January 2006, Wham-O was sold for ~ US $ 80 million to Cornerstone Overseas Investment Limited, a Chinese company that owns or controls five factories in China.

* 2009, Wham-O sold to investment firm The Aguilar Group.

He sold the design to Wham-O in 1957 and the design was modified, the product renamed Frisbee and sales took off in 1959.

In 1983 Wham-O was sold to Kransco and the IFA was disbanded.

The bank which held the mortgage on the old church declared that the interest was considerably in arrears, and the real estate people said flatly that the land across the river was being held for an eventual development for white working people who were coming in, and that none would be sold to colored folk.

So Mel Chandler set out to sell him on the spirit of Garryowen, just as he himself had been sold a short time before.

The statutes, similar in both the Bay State and Rhode Island and dating back in some instances to colonial times, severely limit the types of merchandise that may be sold on the Sabbath.

Marc also formed a group with Black Silver called Live Black, but while five of their tracks were released on a demo CD sold at concerts, Live Black's first album has yet to be released.

The publisher of a work might receive a percentage calculated on a wholesale or a specific price and or a fixed amount on each book that is sold.

The Apple I went on sale in July 1976 at a price of, because Wozniak " liked repeating digits " and because they originally sold it to a local shop for $ 500 plus a one-third markup.

< li > A unit was sold in September 2009 for $ 17, 000 on eBay.

< li > A unit was sold on March 23, 2010 for $ 42, 766 on eBay.

He had achieved considerable financial success in his tailoring business, which he sold in order to concentrate on politics.

In one year, the farm yielded over $ 1, 000, 000 in cash dividends, and petroleum from oil wells on the property sold profitably.

Consumers who have been sold on the benefits of instant results may hesitate giving the required commitment of twenty to forty private lessons.

Besides the normal print book editions, the novel was also included on a CD-ROM sold by ClariNet Communications along with the other nominees for the 1993 Hugo awards.

Tickets had gone on sale on January 10 and sold out before lunch.

In the narrower sense environmental activists that align themselves with Earth First or Road Protestors would commonly be labelled activists, whilst a local community fighting to stop their park or green being sold off or built on would fit the broader application, due to their using similar means to similarly conservative ends.

In 1995, the company sold its remaining direct life insurance holdings to focus on consulting.

In the United States, on the other hand, alcopops often start out as un-hopped beers, depending on the state in which they are sold.

In the United States there is a proportionally limited tax on alcopops relative to those sold in Europe, although some states are considering legislation to bring their tax levels closer to the European model, which is credited with limiting consumption by youth.

It was first published in Copenhagen on 4 December 1879, in an edition of 8, 000 copies that sold out within a month ; a second edition of 3, 000 copies followed on 4 January 1880 and a third edition of 2, 500 was issued on 8 March.

At a time when the Southern United States was segregated racially, Bill's grandparents sold goods on credit to people of all races.