Lucasfilm Loses in U.K. Supreme Court on Stormtrooper Helmet
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George Lucas’s production company Lucasfilm Ltd. failed to convince Britain’s highest court that U.K. copyright law bars sales of replica Imperial Stormtrooper helmets from the movie “Star Wars.”
The ruling today by the U.K. Supreme Court in London upheld a December 2009 appeals court finding that British engineer Andrew Ainsworth, who helped design the white helmets, didn’t violate U.K. law by selling the copies, which he cast from original molds.