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Retlaw Enterprises
Retlaw Enterprises, originally Walt Disney Inc. then WED Enterprises (WED), was a privately held company owned by the heirs of entertainment mogul Walt Disney. Disney formed the company to control the rights to his name and to manage two Disneyland attractions that he personally owned. The name, Retlaw, is Walter spelled backwards.〔
==History==
Walt Disney Inc. (WDI) was formed by Walt Disney in 1953 with the Disneyland designing engineering division. He also assigned the rights to his name and likeness to the company as well as ownership of two Disneyland attractions, the Disneyland Railroad and the Disneyland Monorail. Roy O. Disney objected to Walt's creation of the company as he considered it a diversion of a larger portion of the Walt Disney Productions income to Walt's family. WDI charged a licensing fee to the Disney company for 5% to 10% of the income from all of Disney's merchandising deals. In light of objections from Roy as well as those of potential stockholders, WDI was renamed WED Enterprises based on Walt's initials.
Walt also licensed Zorro TV rights from Mitchell in February 1953.〔Zorro Unmasked - The Official History, by Sandra Curtis, 1998. Page 118.〕 WED Enterprises developed some scripts for the proposed Zorro TV series and shopped the series to the CBS and NBC TV networks. Both networks requested to see a pilot show. However, with the construction of Disneyland ongoing, the Zorro show was put on hold,〔Zorro Unmasked - The Official History, by Sandra Curtis, 1998. Page 119.〕〔Building a Company - Roy O. Disney and the Creation of an Entertainment Empire, by Bob Thomas, 1998. Page 181.〕 and the rights were sold later that year to Walt Disney Productions.〔Zorro Unmasked - The Official History, by Sandra Curtis, 1998. Page 120.〕
In July 1953, Clement Melancon, a small shareholder of Walt Disney Productions stock, took Walt Disney and WED Enterprises, to court over the WED deal, believing that Walt had been improperly funneling profits from Walt Disney Productions.〔Walt Disney - Hollywood's Dark Prince, by Marc Eliot, 1993. Page 216.〕 The case was settled in January 1955.〔Walt Disney - Hollywood's Dark Prince, by Marc Eliot, 1993. Page 220.〕
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