LOS ANGELES — A jury on Monday quickly and completely rejected a man’s claim that Disney’s “Moana” was stolen from ... of “Moana” never had access to writer and animator Buck Woodall’s outlines and ...

Screenshot from Walt Disney's 2016 "Moana" animated movie. (YouTube via Courthouse News Service). LOS ANGELES (CN) — A federal jury will decide whether animator Buck Woodall proved Walt Disney Co.

On March 10, 2025, a federal jury delivered a verdict in favor of Disney in a closely watched copyright infringement lawsuit. In Buck G. Woodall v. The Walt Disney Co., et al., screenwriter and ...

A California jury has ruled that Disney’s ‘Moana’ did not steal ideas from animator Buck Woodall’s screenplay ‘Bucky’, which he claimed to have shared with an executive in the early 2000s.

This month, after half a decade of litigation, the copyright infringement case against Disney over its beloved animated film Moana finally reached ...

Walt Disney Animation Studios' feature film “Moana 2,” Moana (voice of Auli‘i Cravalho) must journey to the far seas of Oceania and into dangerous, long-lost waters for an adventure unlike anything ...

A federal court in California has ruled in favor of Disney in a long-running copyright case over its hit animated film Moana. On Monday, March 10, the jury rejected claims made by writer and animator ...

Now, after almost two months, the case has come to a close with Disney emerging as the victor. After a two-week bout in federal court in Los Angeles, the eight-member jury unanimously sided with the ...

Disney dropped the Elio trailer on Wednesday ... The legal battle stemmed from a lawsuit filed by a screenwriter named Buck Woodall in 2020. In his complaint, he alleged that ‘Moana’ was ...