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[Laws in effect as of January 2, 2001]
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[CITE: 17USC1303]

 
                          TITLE 17--COPYRIGHTS
 
               CHAPTER 13--PROTECTION OF ORIGINAL DESIGNS
 
Sec. 1303. Revisions, adaptations, and rearrangements

    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.

(Added Pub. L. 105-304, title V, Sec. 502, Oct. 28, 1998, 112 Stat. 
2906.)
