August 03, 2020
Disney and other Hollywood studios say VidAngel should pay $6.4 million in attorney fees after Munger Tolles & Olson LLP attorneys secured the studios a $62.4 million verdict in a long-running copyright suit over streamed films, claiming opposing counsel "made this litigation as difficult and costly as possible."
March 13, 2020
A California federal judge indicated on Friday that VidAngel is unlikely to overturn a jury's $62.4 million verdict in a copyright lawsuit brought by Disney and other major studios, hinting that if a jury wanted to use a "sledgehammer" to make a point, it could.
November 19, 2019
Disney is urging a California federal court to leave in place a $62.4 million jury verdict it won in a copyright lawsuit against VidAngel, saying the now-bankrupt streaming service's bid for a new trial is "meritless" and should be denied.
October 22, 2019
VidAngel Inc. on Monday asked for a reduced judgment and a new trial in its battle with Walt Disney and other major studios, arguing the now-bankrupt streaming service was "forced to play its part in a farce" and the resulting $62.4 million jury verdict blatantly violates due process.
September 06, 2019
A California federal judge has barred VidAngel Inc. from playing sanitized versions of movies by Walt Disney and other studios that sued the family-friendly streaming service into bankruptcy, rejecting its pleas the punishment was too harsh.
July 29, 2019
Bankrupt VidAngel Inc. is fighting back against a request by Walt Disney and other major entertainment studios for a permanent injunction that would prevent it from playing sanitized versions of their films, saying it had already changed its business model before that behavior led to a $62.4 million jury verdict.
July 15, 2019
Walt Disney and other major entertainment studios have urged a California federal judge to permanently block bankrupt VidAngel Inc. from ripping off the studios' content, arguing that the family-friendly streaming service can't afford to pay a $62.4 million jury verdict against it and its piracy efforts won't stop without an injunction.
June 17, 2019
A California federal jury on Monday ordered VidAngel to pay Walt Disney and other Hollywood heavyweights $62 million for pirating hundreds of iconic films from DVDs and streaming them to customers, delivering a crushing blow to the family-friendly streaming service following a weeklong damages trial.
June 13, 2019
Walt Disney and other Hollywood heavyweights make hundreds of millions of dollars in licensing deals with streaming services like Netflix and Hulu, and family-friendly service VidAngel undermined those partnerships when it pirated films from DVDs to stream to its customers, a California federal jury heard Thursday.
June 11, 2019
Family-friendly streaming service VidAngel should pay the maximum legal penalty — an amount that could reach $125 million — for willfully infringing the copyrights of Walt Disney and other Hollywood heavyweights, the studios' attorney told a California federal jury during opening statements in a damages trial Tuesday.