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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>
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type: "LegalText"
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title: "17 U.S.C. § 1305"
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description: "Term of protection"
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jurisdiction: "us"
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corpus: "united_states_code"
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kind: "code_section"
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title_number: 17
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title_name: "COPYRIGHTS"
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chapter_number: "13"
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chapter_name: "PROTECTION OF ORIGINAL DESIGNS"
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section: "1305"
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citation: "17 U.S.C. § 1305"
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status: "current"
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release_point: "119-100"
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release_date: "2026-06-26"
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source: "official"
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source_url: "https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc17@119-100.zip"
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source_identifier: "/us/usc/t17/s1305"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-04"
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confidence: "official"
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tags: ["legal", "us-code"]
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---
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# 17 U.S.C. § 1305 - Term of protection
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## Text
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(a) In General.— Subject to subsection (b), the protection provided under this chapter for a design shall continue for a term of 10 years beginning on the date of the commencement of protection under section 1304.
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(b) Expiration.— All terms of protection provided in this section shall run to the end of the calendar year in which they would otherwise expire.
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(c) Termination of Rights.— Upon expiration or termination of protection in a particular design under this chapter, all rights under this chapter in the design shall terminate, regardless of the number of different articles in which the design may have been used during the term of its protection.
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(Added Pub. L. 105–304, title V, § 502, Oct. 28, 1998, 112 Stat. 2907.)
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