Disney Wins ‘Moana' Copyright Trial, But $10B Sequel Suit Still Riding The Legal Waves, For Now
Buck Woodall's five-year battle with Disney over who really created Moana looks to have come to an end today with a Los ...
Disney’s Multibillion-Dollar Streaming Decisions May Be Unearthed in Court Battle Against Investors
A judge declined to dismiss a lawsuit from investors who claimed former CEO Bob Chapek aimed to hide Disney+ costs and make forecasts that it would be profitable by 2024.
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Disney Wins Copyright Lawsuit Over ‘Moana’, but Fight Continues with the Sequel
A Los Angeles jury decided on March 10, 2025, that Disney did not steal the idea for its 2016 animated movie Moana. The ...
Disney didn’t copy ‘Moana’ from a man’s story of a surfer boy, a jury says
A jury quickly rejected a man’s claim that Disney’s “Moana” was stolen from his story of a young surfer in Hawaii.
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Disney goes on trial over ‘Moana’ copyright infringement claims
The judge on Monday again denied Woodall's request to ... of people who devoted more than a million hours in the aggregate working on the movie over a five-year period," Disney argued last year ...
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Disney to Diminish Content Warnings Shown Before Classic Films
In addition to wording changes, the warnings will no longer autoplay at the beginning of movies ... (the judge in the case noted that New York has a narrow legal definition of rape). Disney ...
Jury Rules Disney Did Not Steal Idea for “Moana” from Animator in $10 Billion Lawsuit
Animator Buck Woodall sued Disney in January and alleged that the company stole the idea for 'Moana' from a story he has been ...