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title: "17 U.S.C. § 1308"
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# 17 U.S.C. § 1308 - Exclusive rights

## Text

The owner of a design protected under this chapter has the exclusive right to—

(1) make, have made, or import, for sale or for use in trade, any useful article embodying that design; and

(2) sell or distribute for sale or for use in trade any useful article embodying that design.

(Added Pub. L. 105–304, title V, § 502, Oct. 28, 1998, 112 Stat. 2908.)