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Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Iger has personally apologized after a California school was made to pay a $ 250 fine for “illegally” screening The Lion King at a fundraiser, Fox Business reports.
As previously reported by The Inquisitr, Berkeley’s Emerson Elementary School recently held a “Parents’ Night Out” fundraiser in which they screened the recent live-action version of the Disney animated classic The Lion King, raising about $ 800 in the process.
Unfortunately for the school’s Parent Teacher Association (PTA), they later get an email from Movie Licensing USA, a sort of clearinghouse for managing broadcast rights to movies, informing the organization that they had failed to properly secure the public performance rights to the movie before screening it, and the PTA owed $ 250, about a third of what they’d raised.
PTA President David Rose was aghast.