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Disney sues GoodTimes over 'Aladdin' packaging. (Buena Vista Home Video, Walt Disney Co.

By Hettrick, Scott
Publication: Video Business
Date: Friday, April 30 1993

While GoodTimes Home Video slugs it out in court with MPI Home Video over video licensing rights to McLintock (see page 1), Buena Vista Home Video is dogging the budget supplier again about packaging designs, this time involving GoodTimes's Aladdin and Pinocchio.

In a suit filed last month in U.S. District Court in New York, Buena Vista, The Walt Disney Co. and Walt Disney Pictures & Television claim that the artwork and design of GoodTimes's 50-minute Aladdin cartoon's "simulated" Disney's clamshell packaging, "which GoodTimes has not previously used," and "depicts ch