{"id":21277,"date":"2025-12-19T12:37:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T11:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/19\/sony-collars-snoopy-in-340m-deal-to-take-control-of-peanuts-franchise\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T12:37:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T11:37:30","slug":"sony-collars-snoopy-in-340m-deal-to-take-control-of-peanuts-franchise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/19\/sony-collars-snoopy-in-340m-deal-to-take-control-of-peanuts-franchise\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony collars Snoopy in \u00a3340m deal to take control of Peanuts franchise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese conglomerate raises to 80% its stake in firm that owns the intellectual property created by Charles Schulz<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2025\/dec\/19\/retail-sales-fall-uk-government-borrowing-stock-markets-ftse-pound-business-live-news-updates\">Business live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sony has taken control of Charles Schulz\u2019s Peanuts franchise including Snoopy and Charlie Brown in a deal worth C$630m (\u00a3340m).<\/p>\n<p>The Japanese conglomerate has bought 41% of Peanuts Holdings, which owns the intellectual property Schulz created, from the Canadian children\u2019s entertainment company WildBrain.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/dec\/19\/sony-collars-snoopy-in-340m-deal-to-take-control-of-peanuts-franchise\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/45c878dd47f959df720a8f9e6f013dfa83e1684f\/52_0_2411_1928\/master\/2411.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=1cceb3ca7a398752cb730835ed8fac33\" title=\"Sony collars Snoopy in \u00a3340m deal to take control of Peanuts franchise\" \/>Japanese conglomerate raises to 80% its stake in firm that owns the intellectual property created by Charles Schulz<br \/>\nBusiness live \u2013 latest updates<br \/>\nSony has taken control of Charles Schulz\u2019s Peanuts franchise including Snoopy and Charlie Brown in a deal worth C$630m (\u00a3340m).<br \/>\nThe Japanese conglomerate has bought 41% of Peanuts Holdings, which owns the intellectual property Schulz created, from the Canadian children\u2019s entertainment company WildBrain. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese conglomerate raises to 80% its stake in firm that owns the intellectual property created by Charles Schulz Business live \u2013 latest updates Sony has taken control of Charles Schulz\u2019s Peanuts franchise including Snoopy and Charlie Brown in a deal worth C$630m (\u00a3340m). The Japanese conglomerate has bought 41% of Peanuts Holdings, which owns the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/19\/sony-collars-snoopy-in-340m-deal-to-take-control-of-peanuts-franchise\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sony collars Snoopy in \u00a3340m deal to take control of Peanuts franchise<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21277"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}