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275.20 – Manufacture or sale of an unauthorized recording of a performance in the first degree

§ 275.20 Manufacture or sale of an unauthorized recording of a
performance in the first degree.

A person commits the crime of unauthorized recording of a performance
in the first degree when he commits the crime of manufacture or sale of
an unauthorized recording of a performance in the second degree as
defined in section 275.15 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
audio-visual recordings.

Manufacture or sale of an unauthorized recording of a performance in
the first degree is a class E felony.

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