George Lucas Loses Court Appeal Over Star Wars Costume Copyright

George Lucas’s empire failed to strike back yesterday after he lost a legal battle with the British maker of Stormtrooper helmets for the film Star Wars. Andrew Ainsworth recently began selling replicas of helmets and armour made from his original mould, prompting a $20million lawsuit from Lucasfilm. But the Court of Appeal agreed that even though Mr Ainsworth did not own the design, he had not broken any British law because his creations were not art