But for the creators of the hit ’90s sitcom, the show has been a sticking point for many years. Wind Dancer Production Group and writers-producers Matt Williams, Carmen Finestra, Tam O’Shanter, and David McFadzean have been involved in a tricky lawsuit against Disney since 2013. They’re claiming that Disney has made 1.5 billion from the show, and they’re alleging they’ve been cheated out of a …
Big Brother Mickey Mouse is spying on children through several of Disney’s apps, a recent federal class-action lawsuit alleges. A lawsuit filed against the Walt Disney Company last week claims that the company violated privacy protection laws by “collecting children’s personal information from 42 of its apps and sharing the data with advertisers without parental consent,” according to The …
The Walt Disney Company has been slapped with a lawsuit claiming that more than 40 of its smartphone apps are illegally spying on children. The class-action lawsuit alleges that Disney is violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). The law, passed in 1998, was designed to protect the privacy of children online.
Poaching in the entertainment industry hit the news late last year when 21st Century Fox accused Netflix, Inc. of poaching employees in Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. v. Netflix Inc., SC12643. Poaching, or lack thereof (anti-poaching), hit the news this week as Disney settled …
A class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of 250 senior administrative office workers, managers and specialists, accuses Walt Disney Parks and Resorts of laying them off so they could be replaced by foreign employees. The suit was filed Monday by 30 named plaintiffs and was entered into the record Tuesday, …
The IT employees laid off by Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, who alleged a “conspiracy to displace U.S. workers” in a lawsuit, lost a key ruling Thursday and face dismissal of the complaint. But this is a two-part legal fight, and a new lawsuit alleging national origin discrimination may be filed in the next month. The first lawsuit followed a decision by Disney to outsource some of its IT …
The lawsuit filed by Disney, 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros. against VidAngel is stepping on some bizarre territory. To quickly review, the three studios (including Disney subsidiary LucasFilm) filed a copyright infringement complaint in June with the allegation that VidAngel was operating an “unlicensed VOD streaming service” by selling movies and TV shows for $20, providing the means so …
Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel and Spa is facing a lawsuit from a Northern California family after bedbugs at the acclaimed hotel allegedly ruined their 2014 vacation. According to a lawsuit filed by the family in Los Angeles Superior Court, they were bitten by bed bugs during their stay at Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel and Spa. Joseph and Danielle Jones filed on behalf …
On Monday, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected an effort by Disney and DreamWorks to delay a class action lawsuit that alleges that animation studios colluded with each other to deny its workers better job opportunities and keep wages low. Robert Nitsch, a former visual effects worker who worked on Matrix Revolutions and Kung Fu Panda, and others are moving forward after striking a $13 …
On Friday, movie studios, the rating board, and prominent theater owners asked a federal judge in California to dismiss a class-action lawsuit that’d make all films with smoking R rated unless tobacco is shown as dangerous. That complaint, filed in February, sought an injunction, claiming children are more likely to smoke after watching any offending films. Defendants are the Motional Picture …