Manufacture of unauthorized recordings in the first degree · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 275.10 Manufacture of unauthorized recordings in the first degree.
A person is guilty of manufacture of unauthorized recordings in the first degree when he commits the crime of manufacture of unauthorized recordings in the second degree as defined in section 275.05 of this article and either:
1. has previously been convicted of that crime within the past five years; or
2. commits that crime by the manufacture of one thousand unauthorized sound recordings; 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 first degree is a class E felony.
A person commits first-degree manufacture of unauthorized recordings by committing the § 275.05 second-degree offense and either having a conviction for that crime within the past 5 years or manufacturing 1,000 unauthorized sound recordings. A proviso in subdivision 2 states that this section applies only to sound recordings initially fixed before February 15, 1972. ★ It is a class E felony.
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.