Disney announced that "Moana" won the infringement lawsuit and did not plagiarize

Disney announced on March 10, local time in the United States, that it had won the copyright infringement case against its acclaimed animated film "Moana", with the jury ruling that the film did not plagiarize.

The second part of Moana was released worldwide at the end of last year and received good reviews and good box office. In January this year, an animator Buck Udall filed a lawsuit, claiming that the story structure of Moana plagiarized the idea of ​​his work Bucky and the Surfer Boy.

"Moana" and "Bucky and the Surfer Boy" do have some similarities. For example, both are set in ancient Polynesia and tell the story of a young man going out to sea to save his hometown despite his family's opposition. In addition, both works have the design of the ancestral spirits transforming into animals.

However, the jurors did not support Buck Udall's lawsuit, believing that Disney's creators had not read Buck Udall's works. The director emphasized that all the elements he borrowed were from Disney's own movies.