Riceball
Master Member
guys, do you think they changed the designs of the trooper armor a little to avoid any kind of legal action from the pervious prop shop? didnt pinewood make all the armor? or was it just the weapons?
if they DID make the armor as well, with them going under, i wonder if they do have any kind of legal action they could take if the new prop shop copied their armor exactly?
I doubt it since the armor was clearly done for Lucas/Disney as a project for commission and I think that at most the prop shop would have rights to show it off as part of their portfolio but all rights otherwise would almost certainly belong to Lucas/Disney as they're the ones who commissioned the work in the first place as well as owing the rights to anything and everything Star Wars. It would sort of be like Hasbro(?) suing some other toy company for making Star Wars toys if they had gone under or just lost the rights to the Star Wars toy line. I think that this is the way things like this normally work, if a studio approaches a shop to makes props and/or costume the products made and their rights belong to the studio unless something else was negotiated differently but the only time I could see that happening is if it's a small production and in order to save money they contract a shop to make the props and/or costumes but for a reduced price the shop gets to keep them after filming.