Manufacture or sale of an unauthorized recording of a performance in the first degree · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 275.20 Manufacture or sale of an unauthorized recording of a
performance in the first degree.
A person commits the crime of unauthorized recording of a performance in the first degree when he commits the crime of manufacture or sale of an unauthorized recording of a performance in the second degree as defined in section 275.15 of this article and either:
1. such person has previously been convicted of that crime within the past five years; or
2. commission of that crime involves at least one thousand unauthorized sound recordings or at least one hundred unauthorized audio-visual recordings.
Manufacture or sale of an unauthorized recording of a performance in the first degree is a class E felony.
A person commits first-degree manufacture or sale of an unauthorized performance recording by committing the second-degree offense under § 275.15 and either:
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.