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.
The ruling “maintains an anomaly of British copyright law under which the creative and highly artistic works made for use in films — which are protected by the copyright laws of virtually every other country in the world — may not be entitled to copyright protection in the U.K.,” Lucasfilm said today in a statement.
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