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TIL in 2020, Emerson Elementary School in California was charged $250 by a licensing firm because the PTA showed a DVD of "The Lion King" during a Parents' Night Out event, and the school did not have a public performance license to show the film outside the home. Disney later apologized to the PTA.

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