Disney didn’t copy ‘Moana’ from a man’s story of a surfer boy, a jury says. This image released by Disney shows the character Moana, voiced by Auli'i Cravalho, in a scene from "Moana 2." ... Along ...

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 ...

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 and ...

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 ...

“They had no idea about Bucky,” Kaba said in his closing. “They had never seen it, never heard of it.” “Moana” earned nearly $700 million at the global box office.

With that question settled, the jury of six women and two men didn't even have to consider the similarities between "Bucky" and Disney's 2016 hit animated film about a questing Polynesian princess.

A jury on Monday quickly 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 for only about 2 ½ hours ...

With that question settled, the jury of six women and two men didn't even have to consider the similarities between "Bucky" and Disney's 2016 hit animated film about a questing Polynesian princess.

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 and ...