Disney Enterprises, Inc. et al v. VidAngel Inc.

  1. June 10, 2019

    VidAngel's Claim Studios Don't Own Famous Flicks Falls Flat

    There is "ample evidence" Warner Bros. and Turner Entertainment own such iconic films as "The Wizard of Oz," "Casablanca" and "Lethal Weapon," a California federal judge ruled Monday, one day before a jury trial begins to decide whether VidAngel Inc. owes damages for violating copyright law with its streaming service.

  2. March 07, 2019

    Hollywood Studios Win Copyright Fight Against VidAngel

    Siding with Walt Disney and other Hollywood studios, a California federal judge ruled Wednesday that VidAngel Inc. violated copyright law by offering a streaming service that allowed users to remove nudity and violence from films.

  3. February 15, 2019

    Disney Wants Atty Docs In VidAngel Streaming IP Row

    Disney and the streaming service VidAngel Inc., which Disney and other studios have accused of infringement, have asked a California court to sort out a dispute over whether VidAngel must hand over attorney documents in discovery after VidAngel defended itself by saying its counsel advised it that its services were legal.

  4. January 18, 2019

    Movie Studios Call VidAngel's Fair Use Bid 'Utter Nonsense'

    Disney and a half dozen other movie studios urged a California federal judge Friday to find that streaming service VidAngel can't rely on fair use principles to defend its practice of distributing family-friendly edits of their films online, calling VidAngel's defense against their infringement claims "utter nonsense."

  5. December 17, 2018

    Movie Studios Want VidAngel's Fair Use Defense Knocked Out

    Disney and a half dozen other movie studios have relaunched their bid to have a California federal court rule that family friendly streaming service VidAngel can't dodge liability for copyright infringement under a fair use defense.

  6. August 11, 2017

    Movie Studios Beat Video Editing Co.'s Conspiracy Claims

    A California federal judge on Thursday tossed out accusations by video editing company VidAngel Inc. that Disney Enterprises Inc., Lucasfilm Ltd. LLC, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. illegally conspired to not do business with the company, saying there is no evidence of such an agreement.

  7. January 06, 2017

    VidAngel Held In Contempt For Flouting Copyright Injunction

    A California federal judge on Friday held streaming service VidAngel, which allows users to edit films to remove nudity and violence, in contempt for making a "strategic decision" and ignoring his order to stop streaming the films of the major studios suing it for copyright infringement.

  8. December 21, 2016

    Studios Say VidAngel Is Ignoring Copyright Injunction

    Disney and the other major Hollywood studios told a California federal judge Tuesday internet streaming service VidAngel, which allows users to edit films to remove nudity and violence, is "defying" an injunction and continuing to violate copyright law.

  9. December 19, 2016

    Film Studios Say VidAngel's Antitrust Claim A 'Distraction'

    The major Hollywood film studios on Monday slammed claims by VidAngel that the web service — which allows users to edit films to remove nudity and violence — has been victimized by a film-industrywide conspiracy, telling a California federal judge that VidAngel's antitrust counterclaim is a poorly researched "distraction" from the studios' copyright suit.

  10. December 13, 2016

    Hollywood Studios Shut Down Streaming Site VidAngel

    The major Hollywood film studios won a preliminary injunction Monday shutting down a website called VidAngel, which allows users to edit films to remove nudity and violence.

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