---
kind: "section"
citation: "17 U.S.C. § 1330"
title: "17"
title_heading: "Copyrights"
number: "1330"
heading: "Common law and other rights unaffected"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/17/1330"
units:
  - "Chapter 13 — Protection of Original Designs"
---

# §1330. Common law and other rights unaffected


Nothing in this chapter shall annul or limit—

- (1) common law or other rights or remedies, if any, available to or held by any person with respect to a design which has not been registered under this chapter; or
- (2) any right under the trademark laws or any right protected against unfair competition.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 105–304, title V, § 502, Oct. 28, 1998, 112 Stat. 2916.)