The Los Angeles federal jury deliberated for only about 2 ½ hours before deciding that the creators of “Moana” never had ...

On Monday, a jury decided that MOANA was not copied from writer and animator Buck Woodall’s script for “Bucky the Surfer Boy.

A jury ruled in Disney's favor this week, citing that the megamedia giant did not steal a writer's idea for MOANA.

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

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

Woodall previously alleged that Jenny Marchick — DreamWorks Animation's head of development for feature films who previously worked in relation with Disney at Mandeville Films on Disney's ...

A federal jury sided with Disney, swiftly rejecting a copyright lawsuit in which a writer accused the company of stealing his ...

A Los Angeles federal jury Monday rejected a writer-animator’s claim that the Walt Disney Co. lifted portions of his draft for a Polynesian-themed surfer story and used it for the 2016 animated ...

To that, beginning in 2004 Woodall says he handed Jenny Marchick his copyright-protected Bucky the Surfer Boy trailer storyboards, “intellectual property and trade secrets” (including a 2011 ...

Animator Buck Woodall sued Disney in January and alleged that the company stole the idea for 'Moana' from a story he has been ...