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Section 13A

Design documents and models

of Copyright Act 1987

ActIn forceProvision 15 of 111
Section 13A

(a)

to make an article to the design, or to copy or to reproduce an article made to the design; or

(b)

to issue to the public, or include in a film, broadcast or cable programme service, anything the making of which was, by virtue of paragraph (a), not an infringement of that copyright.

(2)

In this section—

“design” means the design of any aspect of the shape or configuration

(whether internal or external) of the whole or part of an article, other than surface decoration; and

“design document” means any record of a design, whether in the form of a drawing, a written description, a photograph, data stored in a computer or otherwise.