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<section article="gcr" article_name="Criminal Law" number="7-308" title_number="7" title_name="Theft and Related Crimes" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Crimes Involving Telecommunications and Electronics">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Deliver” means to sell, rent, distribute, or circulate.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>“Performance” includes a live performance and a performance that is transmitted by wire, radio, or television.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>“Recorded article” means a phonograph record, disc, wire, tape, film, videocassette, or other article on which sounds are recorded or otherwise stored.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>This subsection applies only to sound recordings initially fixed before February 15, 1972.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Except as otherwise provided in this section, a person may not knowingly transfer or cause to be transferred any sounds recorded on a recorded article to any other recorded article:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>with the intent to sell or cause to be sold for profit or used to promote the sale of any product; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>without the consent of the owner of the original fixation of sounds embodied in the master recorded article.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Except as otherwise provided in this section, a person may not knowingly deliver, offer for delivery, possess for delivery, cause to be delivered, cause to be offered for delivery, or cause to be possessed for delivery a recorded article or device:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>on which sounds have been transferred without the consent of the owner of the original fixation of sounds embodied in the master recorded article; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>embodying a performance without the consent of the performer.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Except as otherwise provided in this section, a person may not knowingly transfer to or cause to be transferred to a recorded article on which sounds or images have been transferred or stored any performance:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>with the intent to sell or cause to be sold for profit or used to promote the sale of any product; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>without the consent of the performer.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A person may not knowingly deliver, offer for delivery, or possess for the purpose of delivery a recorded article on which sounds or images have been transferred or stored, unless the recorded article bears in a prominent place on its outside face or package:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the actual name and street address of the transferor of the sounds or images; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the actual name of the performer or group.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>Except in the lobby area of a motion picture theater, a person may not knowingly operate an audiovisual recording function of a device in a motion picture theater without the consent of the owner or lessee of the theater.</text>
  </level>
</section>
