Buck Woodall's five-year battle with Disney over who really created Moana looks to have come to an end today with a Los Angeles jury finding for the House of Mouse in the animated franchise dispute, for now.

A Los Angeles jury decided on March 10, 2025, that Disney did not steal the idea for its 2016 animated movie Moana. The decision came after a two-week trial where Buck Woodall, a writer and animator,

A federal jury ruled in Disney's favor on Monday, delivering a swift verdict in a copyright lawsuit case in which a man claimed the company stole his ideas to make the hit film Moana. According to the Associated Press,