The Walt Disney Company (TWDC) was founded in
1923 by
Walt Disney and is one of the largest entertainment
corporations in the world. Its
movie studio is
Walt Disney Pictures. It owns the rights to
Disney's animated films and many theme parks including,
Disneyland,
Walt Disney World,
Eurodisney, and
Tokyo Disney. The TWDC also owns the
American Broadcasting Company and
ESPN's family of cable television networks.
Some librarians have objected to TWDC's lobbying of the world's major legislative bodies into passing repeated retroactive copyright term extensions, calling it "manipulative" and "absurd".
The company has an exclusive right to distribute motion pictures produced by Studio Ghibli led by Miyazaki Hayao.
See also Disney characters' names in various languages.
