VETOES

FOR the purpose of prohibiting the transfer of certain sounds or
images from certain videocassettes, certain articles, and
other media to other certain videocassettes and other media
under certain circumstances; prohibiting the transfer of
certain sounds or images of certain performances to certain
videocassettes or other media under certain circumstances;
prohibiting certain sale or distribution of certain
videocassettes or other media under certain circumstances;
providing certain exceptions; altering certain penalties for
certain violations of this section; providing for certain

forfeiture and destruction of certain articles and

equipment; providing that certain private litigation rights
are unaffected; and generally relating to certain
unauthorized copying.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments

Section 467A

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1987 Replacement Volume and 1988 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments

467A.

(a) Unless otherwise provided in this section, it is
unlawful for any person, firm, partnership, corporation, or
association knowingly to:

(1)  Transfer or cause to be transferred any sounds OR
IMAGES recorded on a phonograph record, disc, wire, tape, film,
VIDEOCASSETTE, or other article NOW KNOWN OR LATER DEVELOPED on
which sounds OR IMAGES are recorded OR OTHERWISE STORED, onto any
other phonograph record, disc, wire, tape, film, VIDEOCASSETTE,
or article with the intent to sell or cause to be sold for profit
or used to promote the sale of any product, without the consent
of the owner of the original fixation of sounds OR IMAGES
embodied in the master recording, film, or other such article,
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT THIS PARAGRAPH SHALL ONLY APPLY TO SOUND
RECORDINGS INITIALLY FIXED PRIOR TO FEBRUARY 15, 1972; or

(2)  Transfer to or cause to be transferred to any
phonograph record, disc, wire, tape, film, VIDEOCASSETTE, or
other article NOW KNOWN OR LATER DEVELOPED ON WHICH SOUNDS OR
IMAGES ARE RECORDED OR OTHERWISE STORED, any performance whether
live before an audience or transmitted by wire or through the air
by radio or television with the intent to sell or cause to be

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