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

A jury has determined that Moana creators knew nothing about a fellow Hawaii set & Polynesian demigods featuring idea & did ...

A jury sided with Disney, rejecting claims that "Moana" was based on Buck Woodall’s story. Here's what we know.

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 on Monday cleared Disney of a copyright infringement claim involving 'Moana,' which was brought by the author of ...

Was “Moana” based on a boy named Bucky? Lawyers for a New Mexico writer and animator will say at closing arguments at his federal trial in Los Angeles on Monday that his work was stolen to ...

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.

Woodall, who lives in Mexico, first sued Disney for at least $100m in damages in 2020, but a California court ruled in November that his filing had come too late and dismissed it. Woodall was still ...

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

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. But his attorney argued ...

Screenwriter Buck Woodall had in 2020 filed a copyright infringement suit against Disney, claiming that 2016 film Moana was ...

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 goes ...