Entertainment Rights Plc was a global media company. Its main role was in children and family television programming. The group was established in 1989 as Sleepy Kids. In 1999 it became Entertainment Rights and was focused on the creation and exploitation of major children's characters and brands. On 1 April 2009 Entertainment Rights was acquired by Boomerang Media (formed by the founders of subsidiary Classic Media), in May 2009, Entertainment Rights and its subsidiaries and offices was absorbed into Classic Media, and on July 23, 2012 Classic Media was purchased by DreamWorks Animation.
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“Whilst the rights of all as persons are equal, in virtue of their access to reason, their rights in property are very unequal. One man owns his clothes, and another owns a country.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)