George Lucas's battle over the copyright to replica Stormtrooper costumes has reached the UK Supreme Court.
Lucas contends that British prop designer Andrew Ainsworth, who built the original Stormtrooper suits for the 1977 Star Wars movie, does not own the copyright and should not be allowed to sell replicas based on his original models, reports The Guardian.
The filmmaker successfully sued Ainsworth for $20 million (£12.4m) in the US when Ainsworth began selling replicas in 2004.
Ainsworth ceased selling replicas in the US and began selling them in the UK after the lawsuit. Lucas's case was thrown out on appeal in the UK in 2008.
A ruling was reached that British copyright laws did not cover the costumes. That ruling was upheld in 2009 at the court of appeal.
Lucas reportedly hopes to cite filmmakers such as Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson and James Cameron in his defence in the UK Supreme Court.
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