Animator Buck Woodall continues to pursue a copyright trial over the sequel to the 2016 hit, though the jury's decision in this case may indicate he faces an uphill battle.

A federal jury sided with Disney, swiftly rejecting a copyright lawsuit in which a writer accused the company of stealing his ideas for the animated hit Moana. Released in 2016, Disney's Moana ...

A federal jury sided with Disney, swiftly rejecting a copyright lawsuit. A writer accused the company of stealing his ideas for the animated hit Moana. On Monday, a federal jury ruled in Disney ...

A jury on Monday quickly and completely rejected a man’s claim that Disney’s “Moana” was stolen from his story of a young surfer in Hawaii. The Los Angeles federal jury deliberated for ...

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.

Because valid copyright ownership was not at issue ... Woodall’s materials to anybody at Disney. Instead, Disney argued that “Moana” was independently created years later using the studio ...

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

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.

Washington [US], March 11 (ANI): After a five-year legal battle, Disney has emerged victorious in a copyright trial concerning the origins of its hit animated film 'Moana.' According to Deadline ...

Moana 2,” the third-biggest movie box-office hit of 2024, and Amanda Seyfried playing a Philadelphia patrol officer fighting ...

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 ...