Lady and the Tramp November 16, 1988, Peggy Lee sued the Walt Disney Company for breach of contract, claiming that she retained the rights to transcriptions of the music, arguing that videotape editions were transcriptions. After a protracted legal battle, she was awarded $2.3 million in 1991. The remastered soundtrack of "Lady and the Tramp" was released on CD by Walt Disney Records on September 9, 1997, and was released as a digital download on September 26, 2006. On February 27, 2001, Disney Television Animation released a direct-to-video sequel to the film titled "". Produced 46 years after its predecessor and takes place two
Lady and the Tramp illustrator in 1953. Claude Coats was then appointed as the key background artist. Coats made models of the interiors of Jim Dear and Darling's house, and shot photos and film at a low perspective as reference to maintain a dog's view. Eyvind Earle (who later became the art director of Disney's "Sleeping Beauty") did almost 50 miniature concept sketches for the Bella Notte sequence and was a key contributor to the film. Originally, "Lady and the Tramp" was planned to be filmed in a regular full frame aspect ratio. However, due to the growing interest of widescreen film among movie-goers,