In May 1989, Mary Costa sued the Walt Disney Company for royalties of $2 million owed to her since the 1986 home video release of Sleeping Beauty. She claimed that her contract with the studio prevented them from producing "phonograph recordings or transcriptions for sale to the public" without her permission, although Disney claimed that the video tapes were nothing more than versions of the film. By June 1991, the case was settled out-of-court in favor of Costa for an undisclosed sum.
