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[CITE: 17USC1305]

 
                          TITLE 17--COPYRIGHTS
 
               CHAPTER 13--PROTECTION OF ORIGINAL DESIGNS
 
Sec. 1305. Term of protection

    (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.
    (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.
    (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.

(Added Pub. L. 105-304, title V, Sec. 502, Oct. 28, 1998, 112 Stat. 
2907.)