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Moviemaker Lucasfilm Ltd. settles case alleging it engaged in anticompetitive employment practices to preclude bidding wars for industry's top animators, US antitrust lawyers said Tuesday. 
  
 A scene from the 2008 Lucasfilm animated movie 'Star Wars: The Clone Wars.' Federal antitrust lawyers say that the movie studio entered into a secret agreement with Pixar to restrain competition for digital animators. 
  
 Federal antitrust lawyers announced Tuesday that they have reached a settlement with Lucasfilm Ltd., preventing the San Francisco-based motion picture production company from engaging in anticompetitive employment practices. 
  
 The company allegedly sought to undercut the ability of digital animators to work at competing companies and receive full compensation for their skills. 
  
 According to federal officials, Lucasfilm had entered an agreement with Pixar that neither company would try to hire away each other’s employees. The companies also agreed to notify each other when making a job offer to an employee of the other company, and that when offering such a job, not to counteroffer with compensation above the initial offer. 
  
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 The action prevented potential bidding wars for certain highly prized animators. 
  
 Justice Department lawyers filed a civil antitrust complaint in federal court in Washington on Tuesday alleging a secret agreement between Lucasfilm and Pixar. They also filed a proposed settlement resolving the charges. 
  
 “The agreement between Lucasfilm and Pixar restrained competition for digital animators without any procompetitive justification and distorted the competitive process,” said Christine Varney, assistant attorney general in charge of the DOJ's antitrust division, in a statement. 
  
 The proposed settlement, if accepted by the court, would resolve the department’s concerns, she said. 
  
 The case stems from a broader Justice Department investigation into anticompetitive employment practices at high-tech companies. Similar settlement agreements have been entered into with companies including Pixar, Google Inc., Apple Inc., Intel Corp., Intuit Inc., and Adobe Systems Inc. 
  
 Lucasfilm was founded in 1971 by George Lucas. It has produced box-office blockbusters including the "Star Wars" series and the "Indiana Jones" films. 
  
 Digital animators with specialized skills are in strong demand in the film industry. But the complaint alleges that Lucasfilm and Pixar interfered with the price-setting mechanism that would have operated in a free market for highly skilled labor. 
  
 The proposed settlement would run for five years and prohibits Lucasfilm from engaging in anticompetitive employment practices in hiring and retention of employees. 
  
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 The Justice Department filed the settlement along with its complaint against Lucasfilm Ltd. on Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Washington. The government accused the San Francisco-based firm of agreeing with Walt Disney Corp.'s Pixar Animation Studios not to recruit each other's employees, to notify each other when offering a position to an employee, and not to give employees a counter offer that is more valuable than the competing company's offer. 
  
 A representative of Lucasfilm did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment. 
  
 The Justice Department said the agreements limited an employee's ability to negotiate the best deal from both companies and helped keep down payroll costs. 
  
 According to the court filings, Lucasfilm agreed to end the practice to end the case. 
  
 Six other Silicon Valley technology firms, including Pixar, agreed earlier this year to end similar hiring agreements. 
  
 According to a settlement filed in September, Google Inc., Apple Inc., Intel Corp., Adobe Systems Inc., Intuit Inc. and Pixar all agreed not to enter into "no-solicitation agreements" for employees for a period of five years. The agreement with Lucasfilm will also be in place for five years. 
  
 Technology companies have argued that limitations on contacting employees from competing firms encouraged partnerships that promoted both economic growth and innovation. 
  
 The Justice Department has argued that the agreements were illegal. |||||

The force was with some of America's best animators. Lucasfilm, as part of a settlement with the Justice Department, has agreed to cancel a secret agreement with Pixar aimed at preventing a bidding war for top digital animators, the Christian Science Monitor reports. The firms had agreed to notify each other when offering jobs to employees of the other comapny and to not make a counteroffer higher than the initial offer, according to the DOJ's complaint. "The agreement between Lucasfilm and Pixar restrained competition for digital animators without any justification and distorted the competitive process,” said the chief of the DOJ's anti-trust department. Six other technology firms, including Pixar, agreed to end similar recruitment practices earlier this year, AP notes.