Disney didn't copy 'Moana' from a man's story of a surfer boy, a jury says
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A jury on Monday quickly and completely 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 only about 2 ½ hours before deciding that the creators of “Moana” never had access to writer and animator Buck Woodall’s outlines and script for “Bucky the Surfer Boy. ”With that question settled, the jury of six women and two men didn’t even have to consider the between...
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