Legal corpus: the complete U.S. Code (59,740 sections, all 53 titles)

Ingested titles 12–51 and 54 from OLRC USLM XML @119-100 (the whole Code
now, uniform edition; Title 53 is reserved/empty). LegalText 11,221 ->
59,740; repo total 105,704 records. Deterministic (byte-identical rerun,
verified on Title 42's 8,356 sections); make check green. make
legal-us-code default now covers every title.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

legal/us/code/title-17/chapter-13/section-1304.md

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+---
+type: "LegalText"
+title: "17 U.S.C. § 1304"
+description: "Commencement of protection"
+jurisdiction: "us"
+corpus: "united_states_code"
+kind: "code_section"
+title_number: 17
+title_name: "COPYRIGHTS"
+chapter_number: "13"
+chapter_name: "PROTECTION OF ORIGINAL DESIGNS"
+section: "1304"
+citation: "17 U.S.C. § 1304"
+status: "current"
+release_point: "119-100"
+release_date: "2026-06-26"
+source: "official"
+source_url: "https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc17@119-100.zip"
+source_identifier: "/us/usc/t17/s1304"
+source_file: "data/legal/raw/us/code/title-17/usc17.xml"
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+text_hash: "cef1f0f838e311e57dbfa61fd703dffc9739eb59c8dc949fa860426c2f76022a"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-04"
+confidence: "official"
+tags: ["legal", "us-code"]
+---
+
+# 17 U.S.C. § 1304 - Commencement of protection
+
+## Text
+
+The protection provided for a design under this chapter shall commence upon the earlier of the date of publication of the registration under section 1313(a) or the date the design is first made public as defined by section 1310(b).
+
+(Added Pub. L. 105–304, title V, § 502, Oct. 28, 1998, 112 Stat. 2907.)