With the worldwide box office for its animated Polynesian fantasy adventure Moana 2 having sailed north of $1 billion, the ...

The Walt Disney Co. has been hit with a $10 billion copyright lawsuit by an animator who alleges "Moana" was plagiarized from ...

Disney is being sued by animator Buck Woodall, who claims the company stole his idea for the animated film Moana and its ...

An animator filed a lawsuit against Disney last week saying the company stole plot elements and designs from a screenplay he ...

Animator Buck Woodall has filed a $10 billion (281.7bn) lawsuit against Disney, claiming they lifted key elements from his ...

Animator Buck Woodall accuses Disney of stealing ideas from his script for a Polynesian-inspired animated film titled "Bucky" for the company's hit "Moana" franchise.

Disney faces a $billion lawsuit from an animator who alleges the studio stole his idea for the popular Moana franchise, sparking a major legal battle.

Per the lawsuit, around 2003, Woodall began sharing his ideas for "Bucky" with Jenny Marchick, who at the time was the director of development at Mandeville Films, an independent film production ...

Wednesday, January 15, 2025 - Disney is being sued by an animator for allegedly stealing the idea for Moana 2, as well as for ...

misappropriation and extensive exploitation of Woodall’s copyrighted materials' on part of former Mandeville Films development director Jenny Marchick. Marchick previously worked closely alongside ...

An animator, Buck Woodall, claimed that Disney's Moana was a rip-off of his film. The animator is suing the multimillion ...