350 voice actors and actresses sued the production company for not paying the fee for the use of their voices for the second time upon the release of TV Anime series' video-nization. Voice acting group asked for about 87,000,000 yen (roughly 870,000 US dollars) in law suits and Supreme Court supported the dicision of first and second trial and rejected the production company's appeal.
It was Nozawa Masako-san (voiced Son Gokuu in Dragon Ball) and others who were sueing.
According to the first and second trial, it was written in the appendix of memorandom between voice acting group and voicing companies about additional performance fee upon the video-nization of Anime series after 1986; however, production company declined to pay it saying "we didn't agree on it."
At the second trial, court confirmed that the production company "Nihon Animation" located at Tokyo and its subsidary had an agreement between voice actors/actress group, and judged that they have a duty to pay.
**http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20050628…0181-kyodo-soci
アニメ声優側の勝訴確定 「声の使用料」めぐる訴訟
テレビアニメのビデオ化に際し、音声の二次使用料を支払わなかったのは違法として、声優約３５０人が制作会社側に計約８７００万円の支払いを求めた訴訟で、最高裁第３小法廷（浜田邦夫裁判長）は２８日、全額を認めた１、２審判決を支持し、制作会社側の上告を退ける決定をした。声優側の全面勝訴が確定した。
訴えていたのは「ドラゴンボール」孫悟空役の野沢雅子さんら。
１、２審判決によると、ビデオ化で声優に支払われる出演料は、声優団体と音声会社団体が結んだ覚書の添付表に１９８６年以降、明記されていたが、制作会社側は「合意はない」と支払いを拒否していた。
２審判決は、制作会社「日本アニメーション」（東京）の子会社と声優団体との間に合意があったとして、日本アニメと子会社の支払い義務を認めた。**
Well, congraturation to them.