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Disney has been ordered by a federal jury in California to pay almost $600,000 in copyright damages for using another company’s motion-capture technology in its 2017 live-action remake of “Beauty and the Beast.” The jury found that Disney used Rearden LLC’s MOVA Contour software without permission to render the face of the Beast. The jury awarded Rearden more than $250,000 in actual damages and recommended that Disney pay Rearden more than $345,000 of its profits from the film. Disney denied the allegations, arguing that Rearden did not own the software’s copyright when it was working on “Beauty and the Beast.” Rearden had also filed related lawsuits against Paramount and Disney’s 20th Century Fox, as well as Disney’s Marvel over the alleged misuse of its technology in other films. The case is Rearden LLC v. Disney Enterprises Inc, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, No. 4:17-cv-04006.



Original: US jury says Disney owes $600k in motion-capture copyright trial