---
kind: "section"
citation: "48 U.S.C. § 1421n"
title: "48"
title_heading: "Territories and Insular Possessions"
number: "1421n"
heading: "Applicability of Federal copyright laws"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/48/1421n"
units:
  - "Chapter 8A — Guam"
  - "Subchapter I — General Provisions"
---

# §1421n. Applicability of Federal copyright laws


The laws of the United States relating to copyrights, and to the enforcement of rights arising thereunder, shall have the same force and effect in Guam as in the continental United States.


## Source credit

(Aug. 1, 1956, ch. 852, § 24, 70 Stat. 911.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The laws of the United States relating to copyrights, referred to in text, are classified generally to Title 17, Copyrights.

### Codification

Section was not enacted as part of the Organic Act of Guam which comprises this chapter.