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that Disney doesn t own the copyright to their theme tune, When You Wish Upon a Star from 1940 s Pinocchio. The rights to that song, as well as several other Disney songs, were sold in 1933 to a music publisher because Disney had no means of commercially exploiting them at the time.

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Fun Fact: that Disney doesn’t own the copyright to their theme tune, “When You Wish Upon a Star” from 1940’s Pinocchio. The rights to that song, as well as several other Disney songs, were sold in 1933 to a music publisher because Disney “had no means of commercially exploiting” them at the time.

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