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 Institute in their "100 Years...100 Passions" special, as one of only two animated films to appear on the list, along with Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" which ranked 34th. In 2010, Rhapsody called its accompanying soundtrack one of the all-time great Disney and Pixar soundtracks. In June 2011, "TIME" named it one of "The 25 All-TIME Best Animated Films". In its initial release, the film took in a higher figure than any other Disney animated feature since "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", earning an estimated $6.5 million in domestic box office rentals. "Lady and the Tramp" has had a