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- According to the Los Angeles Times, the 14-page complaint alleged that Ullman’s contract with Gracie Films (Brooks’s production company) entitled her to “five to 10 percent of the net receipts of the merchandising and other profits from products or programs based on spinoff characters, including animated characters, even if those characters were originated by others.”
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Ullman argued that a stipulation in her show’s contract entitled her to receive 5 to 10 percent of net receipts, including licensing, from any characters that appeared on her show, even if they were created by someone else.
May 4, 2008 · IT'S almost 20 years since The Simpsons went from a badly- drawn series of sketches on The Tracey Ullman Show to the lucrative, world- famous icons they are today. The good news is that...
Oct 22, 1992 · Tracey Ullman has lost her lawsuit against 20th Century Fox Film Corp. seeking profits related to merchandising of “The Simpsons,” which was created as vignettes for “The Tracey Ullman...
Nov 12, 2022 · Per Variety, the lawsuit would have brought her over $2.25 million in profits from Fox, but the Supreme Court ultimately rejected her claim after less than five hours of deliberation.
She would go on to star in her own network television comedy series, The Tracey Ullman Show from 1987 until 1990, which also featured the first appearances of the long-running animated media franchise The Simpsons.
Ullman filed a lawsuit in 1992, claiming that her show was the source of The Simpsons ' success and therefore should receive a share of the show's profit. "I breast-fed those little devils," Ullman once said of The Simpsons.