Disney Lobby’s with $1 million and A New Tinker Bell

The Walt Disney Company spent more than a million dollars lobbying the federal government in the first quarter of this year. The majority of the money was spent on intellectual and copy write protection legislation. Other issues Disney weighed in on were patent legislation, digital television transition, amusement park safety and tourism. They also lobbied on the US-Colombia trade agreement.

Brittany Murphy will no longer be playing the voice of Tinker Bell in the up coming direct to DVD movies. The movie was viewed by John Lasseter of Pixar and basically scrapped last year. Now the movie is being remade and Mae Whitman will be providing the voice of everyone’s favorite fairy. The movie is set to be the first of four Tinker Belle themed movies to be released over the next five years.