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Originally Posted by ShabbyBlue

They own the Muppets. Doesn't Sesame Street fall under that same license?

No. The Jim Henson Company was bought by a German media company in 2000. In 2001 the new owners sold their portion of the rights to the Sesame Street characters to what is now Sesame Workshop, formerly the Children's Television Workshop. This was the company that produced the show, but didn't actually own the Muppet characters on the show. They also got the right to call characters Muppets, but they are no "THE" Muppets, which is the branding for characters from The muppet Show franchise of characters that the Jim Henson Company sold to Disney in 2004 after the company was sold back to the Henson family.

So yeah.... there is some weird history and separation of properties happening here. Sufficet to say, Sesame Street is in no way owned by Disney.