Rut-Roh
Published Nov 26 2001
Scooby-Dooby-Doo, where are you? That's what Random
House and Classic Media, the buyers of bankrupt Golden Books
Family Entertainment, must be asking right now.
A bankruptcy court recently ruled that as part of the sale,
Golden Books may assign its license for children's character
Madeline to the buyers. But the whereabouts of the Mystery
Machine will remain a mystery, because the judge blocked
Golden Books from assigning licenses for Scooby-Doo, cartoon
characters from the television show Power Puff Girls and two
sets of Cartoon Network characters.
The companies that licensed the characters to Golden Books
didn't want the licenses assigned to Random House and Classic
Media. Spurned buyer DIC Entertainment is the licensor for
Madeline, and Warner Bros. Consumer Products, a division of
AOL Time Warner, licenses the other characters.
-- Dow Jones
''We're going to get a lot closer to deflation than people
think.''
-- Stephen Roach, economist with Morgan StanleyH
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