Why give Disney the free publicity?
The character is not a Disney original by far. Disney adapted A.A. Milne’s stories and E.H. Shepard’s artwork, and Pooh is unclothed (most of the time) in the original artwork.
Disney doesn’t own the character, but AP was trolling for clicks and was successful by making more jokes at the Poles’ expense (again, they had another article awhile back about a Polish photographer who fell of a cliff backing up to take a shot).
Near the end of the very brief article, it came out that it was a joke made at the end of a meeting about the playground that was going on entirely too long.