N.Y. PEN Law § 275.20
This is the official text of N.Y. PEN Law § 275.20, part of New York’s Penal Law — defines crimes and punishments in New York.
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Manufacture or sale of an unauthorized recording of a performance in the first degree
Official statutory text
§ 275.20 Manufacture or sale of an unauthorized recording of a\n performance in the first degree.\n A person commits the crime of unauthorized recording of a performance\nin the first degree when he commits the crime of manufacture or sale of\nan unauthorized recording of a performance in the second degree as\ndefined in section 275.15 of this article and either:\n 1. such person has previously been convicted of that crime within the\npast five years; or\n 2. commission of that crime involves at least one thousand\nunauthorized sound recordings or at least one hundred unauthorized\naudio-visual recordings.\n Manufacture or sale of an unauthorized recording of a performance in\nthe first degree is a class E felony.\n
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