A jury decided that Disney didn’t steal any of animator Buck Woodall’s ideas for Moana. Woodall has been suing Disney since 2020, hoping to prove that the heavily lawyered-up Mouse House stole the ...
Buck Woodall’s five-year battle with Disney over who really created Moana looks to have come to an end, with a Los Angeles jury on Monday finding for the House of Mouse in the animated franchise ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — 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 ...
A jury in Los Angeles found that an animator's claim that Disney stole the idea for Moana from him has no basis. Woodall previously alleged that Jenny Marchick — DreamWorks Animation's head of ...