George Lucas Loses Stormtrooper Replica Props Battle

Robobrain approves, with replica Stormtrooper helmet equipped.

Andrew Ainsworth, the guy who designed the original stormtrooper design for the Star Wars movie recently won an amazing battle against a monster lawsuit by Lucasfilm for selling replicas of his designs. We're talking a five year, complicated legal wrangle in which Andrew sank close to $1.2 million dollars to fight the multi billion dollar entity, mainly funded by sales of his replicas.

The case came down to a technicality, with the British supreme court ruling his works as a prop rather than a work of art (Which Lucasfilm was pushing for)...Which meant that the copyright protection for the design was 15 years instead of 70, meaning that any copyright protection had long since expired. We commend this man for fighting for the right to make money off his own designs, and providing people like us with non awful replica props of iconic designs.