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Old 09-09-2003, 01:13 PM
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SSS: No. You are incorrect. The shape wasn't "always" in the public domain. Shelby abandoned the car and stopped production and never sought to protect the "shape". It then fell into the public domain.

Had Shelby aggressively protected the car from being copied by replica companies from the get go and had he stayed in business from 1968 forward I think the result would be much different, at least here in the States.
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