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type: "LegalText"
title: "17 U.S.C. § 905"
description: "Exclusive rights in mask works"
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kind: "code_section"
title_number: 17
title_name: "COPYRIGHTS"
chapter_number: "9"
chapter_name: "PROTECTION OF SEMICONDUCTOR CHIP PRODUCTS"
section: "905"
citation: "17 U.S.C. § 905"
status: "current"
release_point: "119-100"
release_date: "2026-06-26"
source: "official"
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---
# 17 U.S.C. § 905 - Exclusive rights in mask works
## Text
The owner of a mask work provided protection under this chapter has the exclusive rights to do and to authorize any of the following:
(1) to reproduce the mask work by optical, electronic, or any other means;
(2) to import or distribute a semiconductor chip product in which the mask work is embodied; and
(3) to induce or knowingly to cause another person to do any of the acts described in paragraphs (1) and (2).
(Added Pub. L. 98620, title III, § 302, Nov. 8, 1984, 98 Stat. 3350.)