Lucas and Ainsworth - Light Sabers meet over costumes

George Lucas Light SaberAndrew Ainsworth is the orginal designer of Stormtrooper outfits for the orginal Star Wars movie - A new hope in 1976. Not a bad outfit for £30,000.

In 2004, Andrew Ainsworth claims he found a helmet in a cupboard of his and since then, he has been making replica helmets and selling them to fans for about £1500 a piece!.

Now, Lucas finds out about this and sets his lawyers loose on Ainsworth. Lucasfilm is suing Andrew Ainworth for £10 million for copyright infringement.

Andrew Ainsworth on the other hand, is counter suing Lucasfilm claiming that he has the right to every dollar of Lucasfilm’s merchandising revenue for the outfits  as he is the original designer.

Who do you think is right?

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April 9, 2008 | Filed Under Movie News 
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2 Responses to “Lucas and Ainsworth - Light Sabers meet over costumes”

  1. RT Cunningham on April 9th, 2008 3:13 pm

    It depends on the original contract. I’m willing to bet George had his bases covered, but I could be wrong.

  2. someone in the know on July 15th, 2008 8:21 pm

    ainsworth did not design or sculpt anything. Lucas employed a talented team of artists to design and sculpt the characters. Ainsworth did the vacuum forming for the suits and helmets.

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