LOS ANGELES — 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 ...

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. The jury’s deliberation was decided in around two ...

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By now, it’s well known that Disney had planned an animated ... Moana and her younger sister on their island, learning of a ...

A federal jury sided with Disney, swiftly rejecting a copyright lawsuit. A writer accused the company of stealing his ideas for the animated hit Moana. On Monday, a federal jury ruled in Disney ...

Disney has been cleared of copyright infringement in a lawsuit over the animated film ‘Moana’. The case represents one of several high-profile intellectual property disputes in the ...

A Disney spokesperson said they were “incredibly proud of the collective work that went into the making of Moana” and “pleased that the jury found it had nothing to do with plaintiff’s ...

Moana may have taken on the ocean virtually alone in “Moana” — at least, until she dragged Maui along — but that isn’t the case in Disney’s latest sequel. In “Moana 2,” our ...