Manufacture of unauthorized recordings in the second degree · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 275.05 Manufacture of unauthorized recordings in the second degree.
A person is guilty of the manufacture of unauthorized recordings in the second degree when such person:
1. knowingly, and without the consent of the owner, transfers or causes to be transferred any sound recording, with the intent to rent or sell, or cause to be rented or sold for profit, or used to promote the sale of any product, such article to which such recording was transferred, or
2. transports within this state, for commercial advantage or private financial gain, a recording, knowing that the sounds have been reproduced or transferred without the consent of the owner; provided, however, that this section shall only apply to sound recordings initially fixed prior to February fifteenth, nineteen hundred seventy-two.
Manufacture of unauthorized recordings in the second degree is a class A misdemeanor.
A person commits second-degree manufacture of unauthorized recordings by:
The section applies only to sound recordings initially fixed before February 15, 1972, and the offense is a class A misdemeanor. ★
Marked in the text: penalties, time limits, sums of money. Editorial emphasis added by this edition; it does not appear in the statute as enacted.
This provision appears in Volume 4 — The Court Clerk: Penal Law; Volume 1 — The Court Officer in Plain English; Volume 3 — The Court Officer: Penal Law; Volume 3 — Your Career: Penal Law in Plain English.