High Court Won’t Consider If Car Named ‘Eleanor’ Is A Copyrightable Character

( November 11, 2025, 12:41 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on Nov. 10 denied a petition for a writ of certiorari in a copyright dispute over a Ford Mustang known as “Eleanor” in the film “Gone in 60 Seconds,” declining to consider whether the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals wrongly held that the car is not a copyrightable character under a test within the circuit....