Advertisement or sale of unauthorized recordings in the first degree · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 275.30 Advertisement or sale of unauthorized recordings in the first
degree.
A person is guilty of the advertisement or sale of unauthorized recordings in the first degree when such person commits the crime of advertisement or sale of unauthorized recordings in the second degree as defined in section 275.25 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 audiovisual recordings.
Advertisement and sale of unauthorized recordings in the first degree is a class E felony.
A person commits first-degree advertisement or sale of unauthorized recordings by committing the second-degree offense under § 275.25 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.