                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

RECORDING OF LIVE CONCERTS OR RECORDED SOUNDS AND DISTRIBUTION, ETC., OF SUCH
RECORDINGS UNLAWFUL IN CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES (§ 59.1-41.2)

It shall be unlawful for any person to:

1. Knowingly transfer or cause to be transferred, directly or indirectly by any
means, any sounds at a live concert or any sounds recorded on a phonograph
record, disc, wire, tape, film, videocassette, or other article now known or
later developed on which sounds are recorded, with the intent to sell, rent or
cause to be sold or rented, or to be used for profit through public performance,
such article on which sounds are so transferred, without consent of the owner;
or

2. For commercial advantage or private financial gain, manufacture, distribute,
transport or wholesale, or cause to be manufactured, distributed, transported or
sold as wholesale, or possess for such purposes any article with the knowledge
that the sounds are so transferred, without consent of the owner.
			This section shall not apply to any person engaged in radio or television
broadcasting who transfers, or causes to be transferred, any such sounds other
than from the sound track of a motion picture intended for, or in connection
with broadcast or telecast transmission or related uses, or for archival
purposes.

HISTORY: 1972, c. 618; 1989, c. 240.