VidAngel, the streaming service that facilitates skipping past nudity, violence and blasphemy in popular movies, announced a settlement in its four-year legal battle with Disney and Warner Brothers on Friday.
The Utah-based VidAngel said Friday the company will no longer stream Disney or Warner Brothers’ content without permission from the studios. It also will pay nearly $10 million over 14 years to the media giants — a “substantial” discount from a jury’s award.
“After a long and extremely difficult legal battle in one of the biggest copyright cases in decades, we have finally come to an agreement in which VidAngel can emerge from bankruptcy and move forward as a rapidly-growing company,” VidAngel CEO Neal Harmon said in a statement. “We also want to thank our fans and supporters, millions of people who have stood with us through thick and thin over the last four years of a battle that all-too-often looked lost and hopeless.”
VidAngel will continue to offer its “skip” services on Netflix and Amazon Prime programming using different technology, Mr. Harmon said in an interview with Variety on Friday.
In 2019, a Los Angeles jury originally ordered VidAngel to pay $62 million for copyright infringement on hundreds of titles.
• Christopher Vondracek can be reached at cvondracek@washingtontimes.com.
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