Stormtroopers Arise

[yellowdingo]

stormtrooper porn Wow...Now I build my own Starship Enterprise in Britain and not be sued by anyone from Amerika. :)

[Crimson Jester]

That has been done. The guy turned his apartment into the bridge of the startship enterprise and even sold it off over the web.

[Callous Jack]

Should I click the link...hrm...

[Carnivorous_Bean]

Considering how lousy the stormtroopers are at fighting -- especially aiming -- and how their fancy armor can be penetrated by the pointy sticks wielded by ewoks, you Brits are welcome to them. ;)

But, on a more serious note -- industrial design? =| I don't see how you can keep a copyright for more than 15 years on anything, in that case -- except for totally unique items, and I mean totally unique, with no copies or anything, since if you, say, distribute prints of an original painting, then wouldn't that be an industrial design, too?

Sounds like one British court just amended the copyright laws for the entire planet.

[Carnivorous_Bean]

Callous Jack wrote:

Should I click the link...hrm...

Yes, it actually just shows a bunch of stormtroopers standing there fully armored. The link name is actually much more strange than the picture is -- it's sort of a reverse rickroll. Usually, an innocuous-sounding link leads to something appalling -- this time, an appalling-sounding link leads to something innocuous.

[Orthos]

Carnivorous_Bean wrote:

Sounds like one British court just amended the copyright laws for the entire planet.

It only applies in the UK though. Try getting away with it in North America or other parts of Europe (Unless being in the EU affects that, I'm still to this day not quite sure how that works) and Lucasfilm has all the rights to slap you down.

[yellowdingo]

Orthos wrote:

Carnivorous_Bean wrote:

Sounds like one British court just amended the copyright laws for the entire planet.

It only applies in the UK though. Try getting away with it in North America or other parts of Europe (Unless being in the EU affects that, I'm still to this day not quite sure how that works) and Lucasfilm has all the rights to slap you down.

Anything that applies in the UK might apply in other commonwealth countries with near identical copyright laws. Canada, Australia...

[Carnivorous_Bean]

So now copyrights only last for 15 years in the Commonwealth countries? Seems like a huge precedent is being set here, without much fanfare. If stormtroopers aren't really the property of George Lucas after 15 years, I can't see how it can be argued that basically anything ceases to be the property of the creator in 15 years. As long as it's duplicated in some way, it's probably 'industrial design' -- and I'd say they could make a case for photographs of it as a duplication, too, since in that case, you're just basing your copy on the 'industrial design' of the photo, not the original.

And I said "the whole planet" somewhat inaccurately -- but in a way, that's what it comes down to, because that British court just declared that it's okay for their citizens to appropriate anyone else's creations after 15 years. So stuff made in the U.S., China, Germany, Russia, Somalia, Kazakhstan, or whatever, is fair game for the Brits now, legally.

That's something that I could see spreading -- why place yourself at a competitive disadvantage to the British, since they can legally duplicate whatever they want, but you're binding yourself to not do so for much longer? It'll be interesting to see if this eventually evolves into a much broader erosion of copyright protection.

[yellowdingo]

Carnivorous_Bean wrote:

So now copyrights only last for 15 years in the Commonwealth countries? Seems like a huge precedent is being set here, without much fanfare. If stormtroopers aren't really the property of George Lucas after 15 years, I can't see how it can be argued that basically anything ceases to be the property of the creator in 15 years. As long as it's duplicated in some way, it's probably 'industrial design' -- and I'd say they could make a case for photographs of it as a duplication, too, since in that case, you're just basing your copy on the 'industrial design' of the photo, not the original.

And I said "the whole planet" somewhat inaccurately -- but in a way, that's what it comes down to, because that British court just declared that it's okay for their citizens to appropriate anyone else's creations after 15 years. So stuff made in the U.S., China, Germany, Russia, Somalia, Kazakhstan, or whatever, is fair game for the Brits now, legally.

That's something that I could see spreading -- why place yourself at a competitive disadvantage to the British, since they can legally duplicate whatever they want, but you're binding yourself to not do so for much longer? It'll be interesting to see if this eventually evolves into a much broader erosion of copyright protection.

Its been more than fifteen years...its been over thirty since the IP came into effect - which then expired about ten years later. They are saying that George Lucas doesn’t own the Storm Troopers in a way that you can’t make your own Storm Trooper Armour without paying him a lot of coin because it was an ‘industrial process’ and the Patent on that has long expired. What George Lucas is attempting to do is kick the existing IP/PATENT/cOPYRIGHT laws to the curb and renew his worldwide ownership now that it has beome popular again.

[Mikaze]

On a related note, some genetic engineers are eagerly awaiting the public domain status of Twi'leks.

And I say Godspeed, noble scientists.

[yellowdingo]

The cult of the Storm trooper is on the rise in a nation where Nationalism is becoming popular at the bottom...who would have thought George would be father of the thousand year Reich.

[Moorluck]

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