Legal Opinion
United States v. Moghadam
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided May 19, 1999No. 98-2180PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ANDERSON, Chief Judge:
In 1994, Congress passed a statute criminalizing the unauthorized recording, the transmission to the public, and the sale or distribution of or traffic in unauthorized recordings of live musical performances. See 18 U.S.C. § 2319A. Appellant Ali Mo-ghadam was convicted of violating that law (herein sometimes referred to as the “anti-bootlegging statute”) after he pleaded guilty to knowingly distributing, selling, and trafficking in bootleg (unauthorized) compact discs featuring live musical performances by recording artists including Tori Amos and the Beastie Boys. The…
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