Company namesEdit

Presents Santa Kermit was released with a copyright attributed to Henson Associates in 1990. So the company was still HA until at least then. I will research this further. -- Scarecroe 17:35, 31 Dec 2005 (UTC)

I think that the company was called both Jim Henson Productions and Henson Associates in the 1980s. The 1986 video Learning About Letters has a copyrigt credit for Muppets, Inc., so I guess the company was also still called Muppets, Inc in 1986. I beleive that Muppet Babies and Fraggle Rock used both the Jim Henson Productions logo and a Henson Associates logo, and the television special Sesame Street: 20 and Still Counting also used the Henson Associates logo. So I think the company used several different names stimultaneously. --Minor muppetz 21:29, 4 Jan 2006 (UTC)

Doesn't Jim Henson: The Works have info on this? I wouldn't use copyright notices on merchandise for accurate info. -- Toughpigs 21:34, 4 Jan 2006 (UTC)

Bringing this subject back up again, I just noticed that the credits for The Frog Prince includes a credit for Henson Associates. So either Henson Associates was an official name back then (alongside Muppets, Inc), or the credit was added later (this credit appears at the bottom of the credits, while Kermit is still seen swimming, so I would imagine it being hard to merely replace a credit like that unless Henson still had a pre-production copy of the end credit sequence without the credits). --Minor muppetz 18:10, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

It seems like a number of different compnay names were used at the same time. I was recently reading some scans of the 1971 book All About Sesame Street at the Hooperfans website, and saw that in that book it was mentioned that the company door had a sign referring to it as "Henson Associaties and Muppets, Inc." I also saw scans from the back of some old Sesame Street video games (I think for Atari), and those games had seperate copyright credits for Henson Associates and Muppets, Inc. --Minor muppetz 02:28, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Henson retained the rights to the Sesame characters... It's possible that he had a separate holding company called "Muppets, Inc.", which had the rights to those characters. I have no idea if that's true or not; it just occurred to me as a possibility. So there could still be a "Muppets, Inc." credit along with the other HA or JHC credits... -- Danny (talk) 02:44, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

I don't know if this helps or not, but as far as the records, all the early Sesame LP's say "Muppets, Inc". The first time I see "Henson Associates" is the back of the first Muppet Show LP. -- Ken (talk) 02:59, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Well, the Muppets, Inc. name was used before Sesame Street, in the credits for the non-Muppet Time Piece. I think I read that the name was also used in Tales of the Tinkerdee. --Minor muppetz 03:03, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, I know. I was just saying that records didn't use HA until 1977. -- Ken (talk) 03:06, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Well, here's the image I was referring to, using both "Muppets, Inc." and "Henson Associates" copyright credits. --Minor muppetz 02:16, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

Something else that I just noticed, though it might not be useful to the Wiki: The Story of Jim Henson includes credits stating that "Muppets and Muppet characters are trademarks of Henson Associates", while also saying that "Sesame Street characters are trademarks of Jim Henson Productions". --Minor muppetz 19:56, March 11, 2011 (UTC)

Disney?Edit

I saw someone wrote on Wikipedia that The Walt Disney Company wishes to buy TJHC but I'm pretty sure it's false please clarify Ellisl4ddude 02:57, February 9, 2011 (UTC)