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

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 ...

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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.

The Los Angeles federal jury deliberated for only about 2 ½ hours before deciding that the creators of “Moana” never had access to writer and animator Buck Woodall’s outlines and script for “Bucky the ...

Disney scored a big legal win on Monday after a federal jury swiftly dismissed a copyright lawsuit claiming the studio borrowed ideas for Moana. The case, brought by writer and animator Buck Woodall, ...

Screenwriter Buck Woodall had in 2020 filed a copyright infringement suit against Disney, claiming that 2016 film Moana was actually based on his work, Bucky the Wave Warrior. An eight-member jury ...

concluding that the primary creators of 'Moana', John Musker and Ron Clements, had no knowledge of Buck Woodall's earlier work 'Bucky the Surfer Boy' while developing the 2016 film. The case ...

In closing arguments earlier on Monday, Woodall’s lawyer claimed that a long chain of circumstantial evidence showed that the two works were inseparable. “There was no ‘Moana’ without ‘Bucky’,” Lage ...

There is finally a significant development in the ongoing legal battle between Disney and Buck Woodall ... creators of Moana, John Musker, and Ron Clements, weren't privy to Woodall's work ...

Buck Woodall’s five-year battle with Disney over who really created Moana looks to have come to an end, with a Los Angeles jury on Monday finding for the House of Mouse in the animated franchise ...