manxtrooper

Book is great Brian, thanks again.

Thanks, it's probably scratch built, alot of them are. Looks nice though . I've got a solid resin one which I love and use for trooping.

Anyone know where I could get a hollowed out E11 blaster? Quite fancy a blaster core model but don't fancy scratch building the actuall E11. Thanks.

Looks good Brian, many thanks

He was on BBC news this morning, I see he knows how to rub it in. Still specifically saying he sculpted the original moulds and also saying that when he built the helmet he built it for a neighbour originally, which got sent to Elstree and then they liked it so much they ordered 50 of them. It's a new story to me.

Winning a case such as this (although I see it more as a near miss than a win), doesn't give him ownership rights of the brand. Even if he'd sculpted these himself, he wouldn't necessarily have rights to reproduce, especially as conceptually he doesn't own them nor did any of the sculptors to my knowledge. They were paid to carry out works. Normally there are contracts in place to protect such loop holes but I believe so early on, in a rushed production on a shoe string, this is purely why AA is able to get away with what he has. As a software developer, I'm basically owned by the company and any intellectual property belongs to them, no matter what I come up with, while I work under their roof they own all code. This also means that legally I can't produce similar products myself without all sorts of legal issues cropping up.