Disney World and The Case of the Stolen Sports Complex

In the 1990s a small two-man team from Tampa alleged that The Walt Disney Company stole their idea, called Sports Island, and turned it into the ESPN Wide World of Sports. They'd let the theft go in return for the small sum of $1.4 billion.

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