A federal jury in Los Angeles on Monday took less than three hours to reject Buck Woodall's claims that Walt Disney Animation Studios had access to his copyrighted "Bucky" materials. Since the jury ...

“We are obviously disappointed. We are going to review our options and think about the best path forward,” Woodall’s attorney Gustavo Lage said. A Disney spokesperson said they were ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A jury on Monday quickly and completely rejected a man’s claim that Disney’s “Moana ... had access to writer and animator Buck Woodall’s outlines and script for ...

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

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 ...

A jury rejected Buck Woodall’s claim that Disney's "Moana" copied his story, "Bucky the Surfer Boy," ruling that Disney creators never had access to his work. Woodall’s lawyer argued that ...

LOS ANGELES — A jury on Monday quickly and completely rejected a man’s claim that Disney’s “Moana” was stolen from ... of “Moana” never had access to writer and animator Buck Woodall’s outlines and ...

A Los Angeles federal jury ruled on Monday that Disney did not steal the idea for its massive hit film “Moana” from animator Buck Woodall.

Plaintiff Buck Woodall contended he'd passed his materials to a contact who worked on a Disney lot. Disney creators John Musker and Ron Clements say they never saw Woodall's materials. A separate ...

A California federal jury said on Monday that Disney's hit film "Moana" did not infringe an artist's copyrights related to his planned animated movie about a teenage hero in ancient Polynesia.

After deliberating for just over two hours, the jury on Monday sided with a Disney unit that it didn’t infringe on Buck Woodall’s copyright to “Bucky and the Surfer Boy” because none of ...

Screenshot from Walt Disney's 2016 "Moana" animated movie. (YouTube via Courthouse News Service). LOS ANGELES (CN) — A federal jury will decide whether animator Buck Woodall proved Walt Disney Co.