---
kind: "section"
citation: "17 U.S.C. § 1318"
title: "17"
title_heading: "Copyrights"
number: "1318"
heading: "Copies of records"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/17/1318"
units:
  - "Chapter 13 — Protection of Original Designs"
---

# §1318. Copies of records


Upon payment of the prescribed fee, any person may obtain a certified copy of any official record of the Office of the Administrator that relates to this chapter. That copy shall be admissible in evidence with the same effect as the original.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 105–304, title V, § 502, Oct. 28, 1998, 112 Stat. 2913.)