UPDATED with YouTube response: YouTube today blasted a lawsuit by Disney over the tech giant’s alleged poaching of 20-year Mouse veteran Justin Connolly .

The suit filed in LA Superior Court seeks a preliminary injunction to block the recently departed president of Disney Platform Distribution from starting a new job at the Google -owned platform as global head of media and sports, with Disney calling it “extremely prejudicial to Disney for Connolly to breach the contract which he negotiated just a few months ago and switch teams when Disney is working on a new licensing deal with the company that is trying to poach him.”

YouTube says that won’t fly because the executive will “not be involved in any capacity with YouTube’s license agreement negotiations with Disney.” His new emp

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