The entire case arose out of testimony delivered by Pixar Animation Studios president Ed Catmull in a related case involving a U.S. Justice Department investigation, begun in 2010, of technology giants Google and Apple, among others. The companies in the earlier case settled for $415 million.

Nitsch, a former DreamWorks Animation visual effects artist, first filed his lawsuit in September 2014 and was soon joined by plaintiffs Georgia Cano and David Wentworth. After initially having their suit thrown out based on statute of limitations issues, the plaintiffs managed to revive the case in August 2015. Their case alleges that the animation studios conspired to keep employee salaries artificially low by setting limits on wages and agreeing to not poach each others’ employees.

DreamWorks, recently purchased by NBCUniversal, joins Twentieth Century Fox’s Blue Sky Studios, Sony Pictures Animation, and Sony Pictures Imageworks in settling the case. That leaves only the Walt Disney Company and its affiliates Pixar and Lucasfilm, along with the now-defunct ImageMovers, to continue to contest the suit.

As in any class action, no member of the class is required to accept any settlement, should he or she feel that the settlement amount is insufficient. Directions on opting out of the settlement will be included in the notice sent out to the class, if and when the court accepts the settlement.

In their earlier settlements, Blue Sky agreed to contribute $5.95 million to the settlement fund, and Sony agreed to pay $13 million. The DreamWorks settlement now increases the total settlement among to nearly $69 million.

Despite the settlement, DreamWorks continues to deny any wrongdoing in the case, and asserts that it is settling merely to avoid the risks and expense of a trial.