N.Y. Penal Law § 275.05: Manufacture of unauthorized recordings in the second degree

§ 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.