Asaki said:

Hey man, don't be so hard on Disney. Look at how generous and completely unselfish they were with The Thief and the Cobbler.

That's not really a good example. AFAIK, Disney does not actually own the movie - Miramax does (or at least has U.S. rights), and they are no longer part of Disney. (And at one point, the Weinsteins claimed ownership, but the reconstituted Miramax were the last to release it.)

Disney gets a lot of blame for what happened to that movie, when they really had nothing to do with it, other than owning Miramax. There were a lot of rumors that Disney had all the master elements that were under Miramax's control, but that was all before the Weinstein split. I don't think anything more will ever be answered as to who has what and who owns what.