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The Walt Disney Company, including Pixar, Lucasfilm, and Two Pic MC, have agreed to pay $100 million to settle (PDF) claims that they conspired to lower the wages of animators and visual effects employees.

The agreement between the “Disney Defendants” and former workers could be the final settlement for a series of legal claims against entertainment and high-tech companies that were accused of having “no poach” agreements that limited how much they recruited each others’ workers.

Combined with earlier settlements with Sony, DreamWorks, and Blue Sky Studios, the class of animator plaintiffs will get about $160 million, assuming US District Judge Lucy Koh approves the settlements currently on the table.