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[CITE: 17USC905]

 
                          TITLE 17--COPYRIGHTS
 
          CHAPTER 9--PROTECTION OF SEMICONDUCTOR CHIP PRODUCTS
 
Sec. 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) and (2).

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

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 906, 910 of this title.