The man who made the original Stormtrooper helmets for Star Wars has won a legal battle to sell replicas in the UK.

Andrew Ainsworth argued that the costumes were not subject to full copyriඣght laws because they were functional items rather than artistic works.

The ruling by judges at the UK Supreme Court upheld a 2009 Court of Appeal decision which꧒ allowed the 62-year-old to continue selling them.

"This is a massive 💯victory, a total victory, we've already got the champagne out," Ainsworth told the BBC.

The prop designeಞr from south London, who sells the outfits for around £1,800 each, said he went to court on principle as he didn't want to all🎀ow director George Lucas to "buy his soul".

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Lucasfilm said it remains committed to aggressively protecting its intellectual property rights, adding that the court's decision maintained "an anoma🎉ly of British copyright law under which the creative and highly artistic works made for use in films may not be entitled to copyright prote💙ction in the UK".