---
kind: "section"
citation: "17 U.S.C. § 1327"
title: "17"
title_heading: "Copyrights"
number: "1327"
heading: "Penalty for false representation"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/17/1327"
units:
  - "Chapter 13 — Protection of Original Designs"
---

# §1327. Penalty for false representation


Whoever knowingly makes a false representation materially affecting the rights obtainable under this chapter for the purpose of obtaining registration of a design under this chapter shall pay a penalty of not less than $500 and not more than $1,000, and any rights or privileges that individual may have in the design under this chapter shall be forfeited.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 105–304, title V, § 502, Oct. 28, 1998, 112 Stat. 2915.)