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by xsmasher 4820 days ago
"Disney have used it" is correct here, in British English.

"It’s one of my favourite images I created at University" could use a [while] to my ear, but it's not so bad.

The world is a big place.

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> "Disney have used it" is correct here, in British English.

Is it even a matter of US vs. British English? I thought collective nouns could be treated as either singular or plural when conjugating the verb.

In the US, I would never say "The government have shut down" or "The team have lost." I would treat them as singular entities.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_noun#Metonymic_mergi...

I think it is. I don't know the rules, but I've never heard a US English speaker use an entity like "Disney" as plural. That said, "the police" is always plural, and I have no idea why that's different.
In the US, a corporation is a person in matters both legal and grammatical.