New York Laws
Article 275 - Offenses Relating to Unauthorized Recording
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.

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