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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Shahana Yasmin

Disney wins $100m copyright trial against animator over Moana plagiarism claims

A California jury found that Disney’s Moana did not steal its idea from animator Buck Woodall’s decades-old screenplay about a young Hawaiian surfer.

After deliberating for over two hours on Monday, the jury ruled that no Disney employee had access to Woodall’s storyboards or script for an animated film titled Bucky, which he claimed to have shared with an executive in the early 2000s.

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