---
kind: "section"
citation: "17 U.S.C. § 905"
title: "17"
title_heading: "Copyrights"
number: "905"
heading: "Exclusive rights in mask works"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/17/905"
units:
  - "Chapter 9 — Protection of Semiconductor Chip Products"
---

# §905. Exclusive rights in mask works


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)](#1) and [(2)](#2).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 98–620, title III, § 302, Nov. 8, 1984, 98 Stat. 3350.)