Was “Moana” based on a boy named Bucky? Lawyers for a New Mexico writer and animator will say at closing arguments at his federal trial in Los Angeles on Monday that his work was stolen to ...

A jury has quickly rejected a man’s claim that Disney’s “Moana” was stolen from his story of a young surfer in Hawaii ...

The jury tasked with deciding whether Walt Disney's 2016 blockbuster movie "Moana" infringed the work of an animator who created a story about a teenage surfer years earlier received a lesson on ...

Kane, University of Hawaii archaeologist Ben Finney and Honolulu surfer Tommy Holmes wanted to challenge the drifting log concept. They started the Polynesian Voyaging Society, intent on sailing a ...

Buck Woodall wrote a script, whose various titles have included “Bucky the Surfer Boy," about a teenager vacationing in Hawaii with his parents who befriends a group of Native Hawaiian youth and goes ...

"Kaba said many of these elements, including Polynesian lore and basic "staples ... Disney's "Moana" was stolen from his story of a young surfer in Hawaii. The Los Angeles federal jury deliberated ...

Buck Woodall wrote a script, whose various titles have included “Bucky the Surfer Boy,” about a teenager vacationing in Hawaii with his parents who befriends a group of Native Hawaiian youth ...