Watchdogs Demand Investigation Into ‘Brazen’ $1 Million Pro-Romney Donation
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Watchdog groups are demanding that state and federal officials investigate a $1 million donation from a mysterious firm to an independent political group backing Mitt Romney's campaign in order to determine whether it violates federal campaign laws.Christian Louboutin Slingbacks
In a letter to Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, the Public Campaign Action Fund claims that the giant contribution to Super PAC "Restore Our Future" from the firm W Spann LLC is out of bounds. As first reported by NBC's Michale Isikoff, records show the firm was incorporated in the state in March and then dissolved in July with little apparent activity besides its donation and virtually no publicly available information on its owners.
"If Attorney General Biden doesn't act soon, Delaware is likely to turn into the Cayman Islands of political fundraising," David Donnelly, the group's national campaigns director, wrote. "This is just another avenue for wealthy donors and maybe even foreign interests to influence who wins and loses American elections."
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Democracy 21, a nonprofit that seeks to limit the influence of money on elections, issued a similar call to federal officials.
"The apparent effort to keep secret the actual donor or donors of the $1 million may well be a violation of the campaign finance laws and this matter should be investigated by the Federal Election Commission and the Justice Department," president Fred Wertheimer said in a statement.
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Even in the freewheeling post-Citizens United era of campaign finance law in which corporations are allowed to spend unlimited cash on political ads, the $1 million donation from W Spann LLC's mysterious short-lived firm is likely a legal bridge too far, experts say.shoes christian louboutin
George Lucas loses fight over Star Wars stormtrooper helmet
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Britain's Supreme Court yesterday defeated a bid by George Lucas' company to stop a prop designer making and selling replicas of the iconic stormtrooper helmets from the "Star Wars" films. The court did, however, prevent him from selling them in the United States.
Andrew Ainsworth sculpted the white helmets worn by the sinister galactic warriors in the original "Star Wars" film in 1977, and now sells replicas over the internet. Lucasfilm Ltd.Stretch tricot knitted fabric has been trying for years to stop him, in a battle that has climbed through the British courts.
Lucasfilm's lawyers argued that the stormtrooper suits are sculptures and therefore works of art covered by British copyright law.Cheap Christian Louboutin Two lower courts ruled in 2008 and 2009 that the costumes were props, not artworks - victories for Ainsworth.
The country's highest court yesterday upheld those decisions. The panel of five judges said "it was the Star Wars film that was the work of art that Mr. Lucas and his companies created. The helmet was utilitarian in the sense that it was an element in the process of production of the film."
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But the judges agreed with Lucasfilm's lawyers that Ainsworth had violated Lucas's copyright in the United States by selling costumes there.
Ainsworth's lawyers said the ruling means he can continue to make and sell the replicas, but not export them to the US
The designer said he was delighted.
"I am proud to report that in the English legal system David can prevail against Goliath, if his cause is right," Ainsworth said. "If there is a Force, then it has been with me these past five years."
Lucasfilm said that "unfortunately" the court had upheld an "anomaly of British copyright law under which the creative and highly artistic works made for use in films - which are protected by the copyright laws of virtually every other country in the world - may not be entitled to copyright protection in the UK"
The eminent Supreme Court judges may be experts in law, but their ruling revealed gaps in their knowledge of science fiction. The judgment said the "Star Wars" movies are set "in an imaginary, science-fiction world of the future."
Film fans know that they take place "a long time ago in a galaxy far,starcraft 2 Promotion far away."
