Advertisement or sale of unauthorized recordings in the second degree · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 275.25 Advertisement or sale of unauthorized recordings in the second
degree.
A person is guilty of the advertisement or sale of unauthorized recordings in the second degree when such person knowingly advertises, offers for sale, resale, or rental, or sells, resells, rents, distributes or possesses for any such purposes, any recording that has been produced 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.
Advertisement or sale of unauthorized recordings in the second degree is a class A misdemeanor.
A person commits second-degree advertisement or sale of unauthorized recordings by knowingly advertising, offering, selling, reselling, renting, distributing, or possessing for those purposes a recording made or transferred without the owner’s consent. ★ This applies only to sound recordings first 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.