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 ...

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 ...

The Moana series could be getting more installments, but it's already a huge success for the Disney corporation - and if winning over the critics and bringing home the money weren ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...