Word: ownerships
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...impressive list but still a Jiminy Cricket-- size business. Bureaucratic red tape and rampant piracy in China have stymied much of the profitmaking potential of the Mouseketeers. Disney has been unable to bring in its Disney Channel because of restrictions on media ownership. Legitimate Disney DVDs cost up to 10 times as much as knock-offs, restricting sales to a trickle. A hot title like Finding Nemo sold a scant quarter of a million or so genuine DVDs in China. (By comparison, Nemo sold nearly 15 million DVDs in the U.S. and Canada during its first two weeks alone...
Dubai Healthcare City was designed as a “free zone” within Dubai, making investors exempt from laws that would otherwise place restrictions on the level of international ownership of firms and the ability of those firms to take their profits out of the country...
...according to HMS Professor of Genetics Brian Seed, the ownership of medical research is never black-and-white—and generally subject to an early contract of some sort...
...Deputy President of South Africa; by President Thabo Mbeki; in Johannesburg. The former Minerals and Energy Minister, Mlambo-Ngcuka succeeds Jacob Zuma, who was dismissed earlier this month amid a corruption scandal involving his financial advisor. As a top government official, Mlambo-Ngcuka, an anti-apartheid activist, promoted black ownership in the white-dominated mining industry. She now assumes the highest political office ever held by a woman in South Africa...
...Nazis branded Feininger a "degenerate artist" in 1937, he left 54 paintings for safekeeping with a Bauhaus friend named Hermann Klumpp. After the war, and for the rest of Feininger's life, the perfidious Klumpp refused to give them back, on the casuistic ground that although Feininger had "intellectual ownership" of the paintings, he, Klumpp, was their "actual physical owner." Moreover, they were in East Germany, whose Communist government refused to surrender them to America. Their ownership had passed to Feininger's wife Julia on his death, and after she died in 1970 an executor of the Feininger estate...