17 U.S.C. § 1303 — Revisions, adaptations, and rearrangements

submitted 28 years ago by Pub. L. 105-304 to r/title-17-COPYRIGHTS · 82 words · no verdicts yet

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This section allows protection for a design that substantially revises, adapts, or rearranges subject matter that section 1302 excludes from protection. The protection is separate from any existing protection in the included subject matter and does not create or extend protection for excluded subject matter.

Protection for a design is available even if the design uses subject matter excluded under section 1302, if the design is a substantial revision, adaptation, or rearrangement of that subject matter. This protection is independent of any existing protection for subject matter used in the design. It does not give anyone rights in subject matter excluded under this chapter and does not extend any existing protection under this chapter.

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Protection for a design under this chapter shall be available notwithstanding the employment in the design of subject matter excluded from protection under section 1302 if the design is a substantial revision, adaptation, or rearrangement of such subject matter. Such protection shall be independent of any subsisting protection in subject matter employed in the design, and shall not be construed as securing any right to subject matter excluded from protection under this chapter or as extending any subsisting protection under this chapter.

Source credit: (Added Pub. L. 105–304, title V, § 502, Oct. 28, 1998, 112 Stat. 2906.)

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1998Enacted · Pub. L. 105-304 · 112 Stat. 2906

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