---
kind: "section"
citation: "17 U.S.C. § 1331"
title: "17"
title_heading: "Copyrights"
number: "1331"
heading: "Administrator; Office of the Administrator"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/17/1331"
units:
  - "Chapter 13 — Protection of Original Designs"
---

# §1331. Administrator; Office of the Administrator


In this chapter, the “Administrator” is the Register of Copyrights, and the “Office of the Administrator” and the “Office” refer to the Copyright Office of the Library of Congress.


## Source credit

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