Rankin/Bass Productions’ 1982 animated film The Last Unicorn adapts Peter S. Beagle’s original novel of the same name.
The legal dispute was against his ex-manager Connor Cochran, whom Beagle accused of elder abuse, fraud, and slander.
Animation news website Cartoon Brew reported on March 26 that Peter S. Beagle, the author of the 1968 novel The Last Unicorn, won the legal battle over the rights to his intellectual property.
The Superior Court of California ruled in Beagle’s favor on four out of six cases that went to trial in 2019, but then Cochran filed for bankruptcy.