A jury quickly rejected a man's claim that Disney's "Moana" was stolen from his story of a young surfer in Hawaii.
On Monday, a jury decided that MOANA was not copied from writer and animator Buck Woodall’s script for “Bucky the Surfer Boy.
Under cross-examination, Buck Woodall appeared unsure about who he met with and to whom he pitched his story about a young ...
Buck Woodall wrote a script, whose various titles have included “Bucky the Surfer Boy," about a teenager vacationing in Hawaii with his parents who befriends a group of Native Hawaiian youth and ...
A federal jury ruled in Disney's favor on Monday, delivering a swift verdict in a copyright lawsuit case in which a man ...
Animator Buck Woodall continues to pursue a copyright trial over the sequel to the 2016 hit, though the jury's decision in ...
A jury sided with Disney, rejecting claims that "Moana" was based on Buck Woodall’s story. Here's what we know.
Woodall's attorney said that a long chain of circumstantial evidence and similarities so numerous they can't be coincidences make it clear that his story "Bucky the Surfer Boy" was the basis for ...