Surf’s Up in Court: Jury Deliberates Origins of ‘Moana’ Amid Claims of Stolen Story from Indie Animator
Los Angeles — A legal battle that pits a small-time writer against one of the entertainment industry’s giants unfolded in a Los Angeles court, where Buck Woodall alleges that his conceptual work “Bucky the Surfer Boy” served as the unrecognized foundation for Disney’s blockbuster film “Moana”. Lawyers delivered closing arguments this Monday, spotlighting fundamental questions of creativity and copyright inside the entertainment industry. Woodall, a writer and animator from New Mexico, brought forth a case arguing that major similarities between “Moana” and his work are too many to simply be coincidental. According to Woodall’s attorney, … Read more