---
kind: "section"
citation: "17 U.S.C. § 1008"
title: "17"
title_heading: "Copyrights"
number: "1008"
heading: "Prohibition on certain infringement actions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/17/1008"
units:
  - "Chapter 10 — Digital Audio Recording Devices and Media"
  - "Subchapter D — Prohibition on Certain Infringement Actions, Remedies, and Arbitration"
---

# §1008. Prohibition on certain infringement actions


No action may be brought under this title alleging infringement of copyright based on the manufacture, importation, or distribution of a digital audio recording device, a digital audio recording medium, an analog recording device, or an analog recording medium, or based on the noncommercial use by a consumer of such a device or medium for making digital musical recordings or analog musical recordings.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 102–563, § 2, Oct. 28, 1992, 106 Stat. 4244.)