2024 Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 18 - CRIMINAL CODE (§§ 18-1-101 — 18-26-102)
Article 4 - Offenses Against Property (§§ 18-4-101 — 18-4-801)
Part 6 - THEFT OF SOUND RECORDINGS (§§ 18-4-601 — 18-4-607)
Section 18-4-604.3 - Unlawful recording of a live performance

• (1) A person who, without the consent of the owner of the right to record a live performance, records or causes to be recorded the live performance on a phonograph record, compact disc, video disc, wire, tape, film, or other article on which a live performance is recorded with the intent to sell the article on which the live performance is recorded or to cause the same to be sold for profit or to be used to promote the sale of any product commits unlawful recording of a live performance.

• (2) In the absence of a written agreement or law to the contrary, the performer or performers of a live performance are presumed to own the rights to record the live performance.

• (3) For purposes of this section, a person who is authorized to maintain custody and control of business records that reflect whether the owner of the live performance consented to having the live performance recorded is a competent witness in a proceeding regarding the issue of consent.

• (4) Unlawful recording of a live performance is a petty offense.

• (5) As used in this section, "live performance" means a recitation, rendering, or playing of a series of images, musical, spoken, or other sounds, or a combination of images and sounds, in an audible sequence.

Amended by 2021 Ch. 462, § 224, eff. 3/1/2022.

L. 2005: Entire section added, p. 202, § 2, effective July 1. L. 2021: (4) amended, (SB 21-271), ch. 462, p. 3181, § 224, effective 3/1/2022.

Section 803(2) of chapter 462 (SB 21-271), Session Laws of Colorado 2021, provides that the act changing this section applies to offenses committed on or after March 1, 2022.

2021 Ch. 462, was passed without a safety clause. See Colo. Const. art. V, § 1(3).