George Lucas loses Stormtrooper battle at Supreme Court

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A prop designer who made the original Stormtrooper helmets for Star Wars has won his battle with director George Lucas over his right to sell replicas.

Andrew Ainsworth, 62, of south London, successfully argued the costumes were functional not artistic works, and so not subject to full copyright laws.

Judges at the Supreme Court upheld a 2009 Court of Appeal decision allowing Mr Ainsworth to continue selling them.

But they also ruled that the director's copyright had been violated in the US.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14287864

Good example of US law not being applicable here in the UK.

[KurtNYC]

1. Interesting contrast.

While arguing the Napster case, attorney David Boies alleged that the continuing expansion of copyrights "threatens to make us all strictly spectators to our own culture."

[Blue_Tires]

2. Move along...