Criminal infringement of a copyright, 18 U.S.C. 2319

The penalty section that 17 U.S.C. 506(a) points to. Filed here for the same reason as its companion: a court named it in an order this archive quotes.

Scope of this record, stated plainly. The url resolves to the section as currently codified, which is not the text in force in December 1991. The section was added by Pub. L. 97-180, § 3, May 24, 1982, 96 Stat. 92. Cornell’s editorial notes record subsection (b), the penalty schedule, being amended generally by Pub. L. 102-561 on Oct. 28, 1992, with further amendments in 1997, 2002, 2005 and 2008. The order in Grand Upright issued Dec. 17, 1991. The penalty structure a reader finds at this url is therefore not the structure that stood behind the referral.

The casefile that cites this record quotes no statutory text and states no penalty. It says only what the order says: that the matter was referred to the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York for consideration of prosecution under this section and under 17 U.S.C. 506(a). Any future use of the 1991 penalty text is a receipt-gate job against the Statutes at Large, not a lift from this record.