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Tuesday, March 08, 2011

George Lucas Takes Stormtrooper Copyright Fight to U.K. Supreme Court

The Hollywood Reporter: "A battle between George Lucas and British prop designer Andrew Ainsworth over replica Stormtrooper outfits has hit the U.K. Supreme Court, the highest civil action court in Britain.
Ainsworth, who built the original Stormtrooper costumes from sketches while working out of Shepperton studios on 1977’s Star Wars, has been selling the outfits online for years based on his original moulds.

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