New York legal term
Recording in New York Criminal Law
Current through 2026 New York legislative session
In New York criminal law, “Recording” is a term defined by statute rather than by its everyday meaning. Its statutory definition — quoted verbatim below — controls how the term is applied throughout the New York criminal code.
What does “Recording” mean in New York criminal law?
"Recording" means an original phonograph record, disc, tape, audio or video cassette, wire, film, hard drive, flash drive, memory card or other data storage device or any other medium on which such sounds, images, or both sounds and images are or can be recorded or otherwise stored, or a copy or reproduction that duplicates in whole or in part the original. (N.Y. Penal Law § 275.00)
Statutes defining or using this term
Charges using this term
- Advertisement or sale of unauthorized recordings in the second degree
- Disseminating indecent material to minors in the second degree
- Failure to disclose the origin of a recording in the first degree
- Failure to disclose the origin of a recording in the second degree
- Manufacture or sale of an unauthorized recording of a performance in the first degree
- Manufacture or sale of an unauthorized recording of a performance in the second degree
- Unlawful operation of a recording device in a motion picture or live theater in the first degree
- Unlawful operation of a recording device in a motion picture or live theater in the second degree
- Unlawful operation of a recording device in a motion picture or live theater in the third degree
- Unlawful use of secret scientific material
Related terms in the same statutes
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