The Semiconductor Products (Protection of Topography) Regulations 1987

4.—(1) Topography right is, subject to paragraph (2) below, the exclusive right to make a reproduction of the whole or a substantial part of the topography or deal in such a reproduction or a semiconductor product incorporating such a reproduction; and a person deals in a reproduction or a semiconductor product if he sells or hires it, offers or exposes it for sale or hire or imports it into the United Kingdom for the purpose of selling or hiring it.

(2) Paragraph (1) above shall not apply in respect of—

(a) the making of any reproduction privately for non-commercial purposes;

(b) the making of any reproduction for the purpose of analysing or evaluating the topography or analysing, evaluating or teaching the concepts, processes, systems or techniques embodied in it;

(c) dealing in any reproduction or product after it has been sold or hired within—

(i) the United Kingdom by or with the licence of the owner of topography right in the topography, or

(ii) the territory of any other member state or of Gibraltar by or with the consent of the person, or one of the persons, for the time being entitled to import it into or sell or hire it within that territory;

(d) any act restricted by copyright in the topography as an artistic work within the meaning of the Copyright Act 1956(1).

(1)

1956 c. 74; section 3(5) was amended by the Cable and Broadcasting Act 1984 (c. 46), Schedule 5, paragraph 6(3), and is restricted by regulation 9(1) below.