Pooh makes everyone miserable

Neil Gaiman links to The Curse of Pooh. The story of how A.A.Milne, who didn't want all the attention that Pooh was drawing, sold licensing rights to Stephen Slesinger, whose widow sold most of the rights to Disney, and how it all ended up in the courts. Most of the parties involved seem either not to want to be involved at all, or to be greedy money-grasping rich people / companies. Feh.