On March 10, 2025, a federal jury delivered a verdict in favor of Disney in a closely watched copyright infringement lawsuit.

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 jury on Monday quickly and completely rejected a man’s claim that Disney’s “Moana” was stolen from his story of a young ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

According to Deadline, Woodall claimed that his distant relative, Jenny Marchick, a former director at Mandeville Films, had shared his copyrighted material with Disney, leading to the creation of ...

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 ...

A California federal jury said on Monday that Disney's hit film "Moana" did not infringe an artist's copyrights related to ...

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.