Disney Slaps PTA with $250 Fine for Showing 'The Lion King' at a School Fundraising Event

is no small feat. There's a whole lot of planning that goes into pulling one off, and plenty of things that could go wrong. But we're willing to bet that parents at Emerson Elementary School in Berkeley, California, never could have expected the way one of their recentIt happened at a parent's night out event November 15, 2019.

"One of the dads bought the movie at Best Buy," PTA president David Rose told CNN."He owned it. We literally had no idea we were breaking any rules."Last Thursday, some two months after the event, the school received an email from a company called Movie Licensing USA, which manages licensing for Disney and other major studios, according to CNN.had been screened during an event in November.

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