We'll relate a short version of how we got here. It starts with Henry Blight "Toby" Halicki, who made the original Gone in 60 Seconds in 1974. While working on his own 1989 remake, he died during a stunt gone wrong. Toby had married Denice three months before he died; one of the items she retained in the estate was the rights to the movie name "Gone in 60 Seconds." In 1995, she closed a deal with Hollywood Pictures to do a big budget reboot, which came out in 2000, its star car referred to as a 1967 Shelby GT500. She didn't apply to trademark the car, but in 2002, Carroll Shelby did. He acquired the trademark to the Eleanor Mustang in the remake and entered a licensing agreement with a Texas builder to make replicas. Halicki sued Shelby in 2004, and after four years of legal roundabouts, a 2008 ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for Ninth Circuit in California and settlement with Shelby granted her exclusive copyright to the Eleanor Mustang. Her lawyers tried to go further, one telling the L.A. Times that Halicki owned the copyright to any vehicle named Eleanor. "It doesn’t matter if it was a bus called Eleanor," he said. "The magic was the name, and that was the thing [Shelby] tried to get." As an aside, an auto historian told the Times, "This whole lawsuit probably wouldn’t exist if [the remake] had just called the car Jane."
She established licensing agreements for Eleanors from die cast models to real replicas, we drove a replica in 2009. She also aggressively defended the copyright — which is what copyright holders need to do to keep the copyright — targeting numerous individuals and companies for 20 years. In 2020, YouTuber B is for Build had to pull around 14 videos in a series devoted to building what he called an Eleanor Mustang after Denice's legal team went after him. We should clarify that plenty of aftermarket companies sell kits called "Eleanor" to turn a Mustang into the movie car. The problem is when anyone calls the finished vehicle an Eleanor Mustang and then attempts to profit off the name.
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She established licensing agreements for Eleanors from die cast models to real replicas, we drove a replica in 2009. She also aggressively defended the copyright — which is what copyright holders need to do to keep the copyright — targeting numerous individuals and companies for 20 years. In 2020, YouTuber B is for Build had to pull around 14 videos in a series devoted to building what he called an Eleanor Mustang after Denice's legal team went after him. We should clarify that plenty of aftermarket companies sell kits called "Eleanor" to turn a Mustang into the movie car. The problem is when anyone calls the finished vehicle an Eleanor Mustang and then attempts to profit off the name.
Eleanor Mustang from 'Gone in 60 Seconds' no longer copyrighted - Autoblog
A California court strips copyright protection for the Eleanor Mustang from the movie Gone in 60 Seconds, freeing owners and enthusiasts to build replicas.
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