Disney wins $100m copyright trial against animator over Moana plagiarism claims - Animator Buck Woodall claimed Disney copied ...

The lawsuit claimed Moana copied the screenplay of Woodall's "Bucky the Surfer Boy," which revolves around a boy who goes on ...

Animator Buck Woodall continues to pursue a copyright trial over the sequel to the 2016 hit, though the jury's decision in ...

Buck Woodall’s five-year battle with Disney over who really created Moana looks to have come to an end, with a Los Angeles ...

A Los Angeles federal jury quickly decided that the creators of “Moana” never had access to Buck Woodall’s outlines and script for “Bucky the Surfer Boy.” ...

A Los Angeles federal jury ruled on Monday that Disney did not steal the idea for its massive hit film “Moana” from animator ...

Disney has been cleared of copyright infringement in a lawsuit over the animated film Moana. The move came after a jury in ...

Most of Buck Woodall's claims were time-barred, and for the one that made it to trial, he can seek no more than $10 million.

The two properties “involve a main character who encounters a demigod with a giant hook and tattoos”, the lawsuit claims. In ...

A federal jury ruled in Disney's favor on Monday, delivering a swift verdict in a copyright lawsuit case in which a man ...

A US jury has rejected a writer's claim that Disney's Moana was stolen from his story of a young surfer in Hawaii. The Los ...

A jury sided with Disney, rejecting claims that "Moana" was based on Buck Woodall’s story. Here's what we know.