A jury quickly rejected a man’s claim that Disney’s “Moana” was stolen from his story of a young surfer in Hawaii.

From its initial inception in 2002, the Oscar for Best Animated Feature has usually been dominated by Disney and/or Pixar.

The jury deliberated for only about 2 ½ hours before deciding that the creators of “Moana” never had access to Buck Woodall’s ...

After a two-week trial in federal court in Los Angeles, the eight-member jury found unanimously that Disney did not steal the ...

The two properties “involve a main character who encounters a demigod with a giant hook and tattoos”, the lawsuit claims. In ...

Around 2004, Woodall gave the "Bucky" outline to the stepsister of his brother's wife. That woman, Jenny Marchick, worked for Mandeville Films, a company that had a contract with Disney to create ...

Woodall accused Marchick of using legal loopholes to pass on his materials to Disney and claims he received copyright protection for his Bucky materials in 2004 - a copyright that was updated in 2014.

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 surfer in Hawaii. The Los Angeles federal jury ...