![]() ![]() The court also relied upon Paragraph 9(e) and its rider, which preserves for Saban the "right to publish and authorize the publication of comic books, coloring books and activity books based on the characters and/or stories on which the work is based." Id. The district court observed that certain terms of the Agreement favored a broad reading of "juvenile story books." The district court emphasized Paragraph 13, which states that "publication will be in a format determined by acting in its sole discretion." Id. Martin's, TOR's parent company, seeking to renegotiate the Agreement. ![]() For several weeks after that, Doherty claims, although she contacted Saban repeatedly, her calls were not returned and her inquiries were left unanswered. It was two to three weeks after this, in mid-May, that she began attempting to contact Saban about licensing the Power Rangers under TOR's Agreement. She claims not to have known specifically that Saban had licensed another publisher for the Power Rangers until April, when she learned that Grosset & Dunlap was preparing to publish a Power Rangers book. In January of 1994, Doherty learned about the Power Rangers and their popularity from a news account. ![]() She appears not to have alerted counsel or others at TOR. According to the record, only Doherty, who is not a lawyer, first learned of Saban's property in the Power Rangers and of others publishing books featuring them. The parties dispute the amount of time that TOR delayed in asserting its alleged rights under the Agreement. ![]()
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