---
kind: "section"
citation: "17 U.S.C. § 1205"
title: "17"
title_heading: "Copyrights"
number: "1205"
heading: "Savings clause"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/17/1205"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — Copyright Protection and Management Systems"
---

# §1205. Savings clause


Nothing in this chapter abrogates, diminishes, or weakens the provisions of, nor provides any defense or element of mitigation in a criminal prosecution or civil action under, any Federal or State law that prevents the violation of the privacy of an individual in connection with the individual’s use of the Internet.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 105–304, title I, § 103(a), Oct. 28, 1998, 112 Stat. 2876.)