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‘‘(A) a computer program, a musical work, a motion 
picture or other audiovisual work, or a sound recording, 
if, at the time of unauthorized distribution— 
‘‘(i) the copyright owner has a reasonable expec-
tation of commercial distribution; and 
‘‘(ii) the copies or phonorecords of the work have 
not been commercially distributed; or 
‘‘(B) a motion picture, if, at the time of unauthor-
ized distribution, the motion picture— 
‘‘(i) has been made available for viewing in a mo-
tion picture exhibition facility; and 
‘‘(ii) has not been made available in copies for 
sale to the general public in the United States in 
a format intended to permit viewing outside a mo-
tion picture exhibition facility. 
‘‘(b) FORFEITURE AND DESTRUCTION.—When any person is 
convicted of any violation of subsection (a), the court in its 
judgment of conviction shall, in addition to the penalty therein 
prescribed, order the forfeiture and destruction or other dis-
position of all infringing copies or phonorecords and all imple-
ments, devices, or equipment used in the manufacture of such 
infringing copies or phonorecords. 
‘‘(c) FRAUDULENT
COPYRIGHT
NOTICE.—Whoever, with 
fraudulent intent, places on any article a notice of copyright or 
words of the same purport that such person knows to be false, 
or who, with fraudulent intent, publicly distributes or imports 
for public distribution any article bearing such notice or words 
that such person knows to be false, shall be fined not more 
than $2,500. 
‘‘(d) FRAUDULENT REMOVAL
OF COPYRIGHT NOTICE.— 
Whoever, with fraudulent intent, removes or alters any notice 
of copyright appearing on a copy of a copyrighted work shall 
be fined not more than $2,500. 
‘‘(e) FALSE REPRESENTATION.—Whoever knowingly makes 
a false representation of a material fact in the application for 
copyright registration provided for by section 409 of title 17, 
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or in any written statement filed in connection with the appli-
cation, shall be fined not more than $2,500. 
‘‘(f) RIGHTS OF ATTRIBUTION AND INTEGRITY.—Nothing in 
this section applies to infringement of the rights conferred by 
section 106A(a) of title 17. 
‘‘§ 678. Unauthorized fixation of and trafficking in 
sound recordings and music videos of live 
musical performances 
‘‘(a) OFFENSE.—Whoever, without the consent of the per-
former or performers involved, knowingly and for purposes of 
commercial advantage or private financial gain— 
‘‘(1) fixes the sounds or sounds and images of a live mu-
sical performance in a copy or phonorecord, or reproduces 
copies or phonorecords of such a performance from an un-
authorized fixation; 
‘‘(2) transmits or otherwise communicates to the public 
the sounds or sounds and images of a live musical perform-
ance; or 
‘‘(3) distributes or offers to distribute, sells or offers to 
sell, rents or offers to rent, or traffics in any copy or pho-
norecord fixed as described in paragraph (1), regardless of 
whether the fixations occurred in the United States; 
shall be imprisoned for not more than 5 years or if the offense 
is a second or subsequent offense, shall be imprisoned for not 
more than 10 years. 
‘‘(b) FORFEITURE AND DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY; RES-
TITUTION.—Forfeiture, destruction, and restitution relating to 
this section shall be subject to section 2323, to the extent pro-
vided in that section, in addition to any other similar remedies 
provided by law. 
‘‘(c) SEIZURE AND FORFEITURE.—If copies or phonorecords 
of sounds or sounds and images of a live musical performance 
are fixed outside of the United States without the consent of 
the performer or performers involved, such copies or 
phonorecords are subject to seizure and forfeiture in the United 
States in the same manner as property imported in violation 
of the customs laws. The Secretary of Homeland Security shall 
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issue regulations by which any performer may, upon payment 
of a specified fee, be entitled to notification by United States 
Customs and Border Protection of the importation of copies or 
phonorecords that appear to consist of unauthorized fixations 
of the sounds or sounds and images of a live musical perform-
ance. 
‘‘(d) VICTIM IMPACT STATEMENT.—(1) During preparation 
of the presentence report pursuant to Rule 32(c) of the Federal 
Rules of Criminal Procedure, victims of the offense shall be 
permitted to submit, and the probation officer shall receive, a 
victim impact statement that identifies the victim of the offense 
and the extent and scope of the injury and loss suffered by the 
victim, including the estimated economic impact of the offense 
on that victim. 
‘‘(2) Persons permitted to submit victim impact statements 
shall include— 
‘‘(A) producers and sellers of legitimate works affected 
by conduct involved in the offense; 
‘‘(B) holders of intellectual property rights in such 
works; and 
‘‘(C) the legal representatives of such producers, sellers, 
and holders. 
‘‘(e) DEFINITIONS.—As used in this section— 
‘‘(1) the terms ‘copy’, ‘fixed’, ‘musical work’, ‘phono-
record’, ‘reproduce’, ‘sound recordings’, and ‘transmit’ 
mean those terms within the meaning of title 17; and 
‘‘(2) the term ‘traffic’ has the meaning given that term 
in section 680. 
‘‘(f) APPLICABILITY.—This section shall apply to any con-
duct that occurs on or after the date of the enactment of the 
Uruguay Round Agreements Act. 
‘‘§ 679. Unauthorized recording of motion pictures 
in a motion picture exhibition facility 
‘‘(a) OFFENSE.—Whoever, without the authorization of the 
copyright owner, knowingly uses or attempts to use an audio-
visual recording device to transmit or make a copy of a motion 
picture or other audiovisual work protected under title 17, or 
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any part thereof, from a performance of such work in a motion 
picture exhibition facility, shall— 
‘‘(1) be imprisoned for not more than 3 years; or 
‘‘(2) if the offense is a second or subsequent offense, be 
imprisoned for no more than 6 years. 
The possession by a person of an audiovisual recording device 
in a motion picture exhibition facility may be considered as evi-
dence in any proceeding to determine whether that person com-
mitted an offense under this subsection, but shall not, by itself, 
be sufficient to support a conviction of that person for such of-
fense. 
‘‘(b) FORFEITURE AND DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY; RES-
TITUTION.—Forfeiture, destruction, and restitution relating to 
this section shall be subject to section 2323, to the extent pro-
vided in that section, in addition to any other similar remedies 
provided by law. 
‘‘(c) AUTHORIZED ACTIVITIES.—This section does not pre-
vent any lawfully authorized investigative, protective, or intel-
ligence activity by an officer, agent, or employee of the United 
States, a State, or a political subdivision of a State, or by a 
person acting under a contract with the United States, a State, 
or a political subdivision of a State. 
‘‘(d) IMMUNITY FOR THEATERS.—With reasonable cause, the 
owner or lessee of a motion picture exhibition facility where a 
motion picture or other audiovisual work is being exhibited, the 
authorized agent or employee of such owner or lessee, the licen-
sor of the motion picture or other audiovisual work being exhib-
ited, or the agent or employee of such licensor— 
‘‘(1) may detain, in a reasonable manner and for a rea-
sonable time, any person suspected of a violation of this 
section with respect to that motion picture or audiovisual 
work for the purpose of questioning or summoning a law 
enforcement officer; and 
‘‘(2) shall not be held liable in any civil or criminal ac-
tion arising out of a detention under paragraph (1). 
‘‘(e) VICTIM IMPACT STATEMENT.— 
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‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—During the preparation of the 
presentence report under rule 32(c) of the Federal Rules 
of Criminal Procedure, victims of an offense under this sec-
tion shall be permitted to submit to the probation officer 
a victim impact statement that identifies the victim of the 
offense and the extent and scope of the injury and loss suf-
fered by the victim, including the estimated economic im-
pact of the offense on that victim. 
‘‘(2) CONTENTS.—A victim impact statement submitted 
under this subsection shall include— 
‘‘(A) producers and sellers of legitimate works af-
fected by conduct involved in the offense; 
‘‘(B) holders of intellectual property rights in the 
works described in subparagraph (A); and 
‘‘(C) the legal representatives of such producers, sell-
ers, and holders. 
‘‘(f) STATE LAW NOT PREEMPTED.—Nothing in this section 
may be construed to annul or limit any rights or remedies 
under the laws of any State. 
‘‘(g) DEFINITIONS.—In this section, the following definitions 
shall apply: 
‘‘(1) TITLE 17 DEFINITIONS.—The terms ‘audiovisual 
work’, ‘copy’, ‘copyright owner’, ‘motion picture’, ‘motion 
picture exhibition facility’, and ‘transmit’ have, respectively, 
the meanings given those terms in section 101 of title 17. 
‘‘(2) AUDIOVISUAL
RECORDING
DEVICE.—The term 
‘audiovisual recording device’ means a digital or analog 
photographic or video camera, or any other technology or 
device capable of enabling the recording or transmission of 
a copyrighted motion picture or other audiovisual work, or 
any part thereof, regardless of whether audiovisual record-
ing is the sole or primary purpose of the device. 
‘‘§ 680. Trafficking in counterfeit goods or services 
‘‘(a) OFFENSE.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Whoever intentionally traffics or at-
tempts to traffic in goods or services and knowingly uses 
a counterfeit mark on or in connection with such goods or 
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services, or intentionally traffics or attempts to traffic in 
labels, patches, stickers, wrappers, badges, emblems, medal-
lions, charms, boxes, containers, cans, cases, hangtags, doc-
umentation, or packaging of any type or nature, knowing 
that a counterfeit mark has been applied thereto, the use 
of which is likely to cause confusion, to cause mistake, or 
to deceive, shall, if an individual, be imprisoned not more 
than 10 years, and, if a person other than an individual, 
be fined not more than $5,000,000. In the case of an of-
fense by a person under this section that occurs after that 
person is convicted of another offense under this section, 
the person convicted, if an individual, shall be fined not 
more than $5,000,000 or imprisoned not more than 20 
years, or both, and if other than an individual, shall be 
fined not more than $15,000,000. 
‘‘(2) SERIOUS BODILY HARM OR DEATH.— 
‘‘(A) SERIOUS BODILY HARM.—If the offender know-
ingly or recklessly causes serious bodily injury from 
conduct in violation of paragraph (1), the penalty shall 
be imprisonment for not more than 20 years. 
‘‘(B) DEATH.—If the offender knowingly or reck-
lessly causes or attempts to cause death from conduct 
in violation of paragraph (1), the penalty shall be a fine 
under this title or imprisonment for any term of years 
or for life, or both. 
‘‘(b)(1) The following property shall be subject to forfeiture 
to the United States and no property right shall exist in such 
property: 
‘‘(A) Any article bearing or consisting of a counterfeit 
mark used in committing a violation of subsection (a). 
‘‘(B) Any property used, in any manner or part, to com-
mit or to facilitate the commission of a violation of sub-
section (a). 
‘‘(2) The provisions of chapter 46 of this title relating to civil 
forfeitures, including section 983 of this title, shall extend to 
any seizure or civil forfeiture under this section. At the conclu-
sion of the forfeiture proceedings, the court, unless otherwise 
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requested by an agency of the United States, shall order that 
any forfeited article bearing or consisting of a counterfeit mark 
be destroyed or otherwise disposed of according to law. 
‘‘(3)(A) The court, in imposing sentence on a person con-
victed of an offense under this section, shall order, in addition 
to any other sentence imposed, that the person forfeit to the 
United States— 
‘‘(i) any property constituting or derived from any pro-
ceeds the person obtained, directly or indirectly, as the re-
sult of the offense; 
‘‘(ii) any of the person’s property used, or intended to be 
used, in any manner or part, to commit, facilitate, aid, or 
abet the commission of the offense; and 
‘‘(iii) any article that bears or consists of a counterfeit 
mark used in committing the offense. 
‘‘(B) The forfeiture of property under subparagraph (A), in-
cluding any seizure and disposition of the property and any re-
lated judicial or administrative proceeding, shall be governed by 
the procedures set forth in section 413 of the Comprehensive 
Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 (21 U.S.C. 
853), other than subsection (d) of that section. Notwith-
standing section 413(h) of that Act, at the conclusion of the 
forfeiture proceedings, the court shall order that any forfeited 
article or component of an article bearing or consisting of a 
counterfeit mark be destroyed. 
‘‘(4) When a person is convicted of an offense under this sec-
tion, the court, pursuant to sections 3556, 3663A, and 3664, 
shall order the person to pay restitution to the owner of the 
mark and any other victim of the offense as an offense against 
property referred to in section 3663A(c)(1)(A)(ii). 
‘‘(5) The term ‘victim’, as used in paragraph (4), has the 
meaning given that term in section 3663A(a)(2). 
‘‘(c) All defenses, affirmative defenses, and limitations on 
remedies that would be applicable in an action under the 
Lanham Act shall be applicable in a prosecution under this sec-
tion. In a prosecution under this section, the defendant shall 
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have the burden of proof, by a preponderance of the evidence, 
of any such affirmative defense. 
‘‘(d)(1) During preparation of the presentence report pursu-
ant to Rule 32(c) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, 
victims of the offense shall be permitted to submit, and the 
probation officer shall receive, a victim impact statement that 
identifies the victim of the offense and the extent and scope of 
the injury and loss suffered by the victim, including the esti-
mated economic impact of the offense on that victim. 
‘‘(2) Persons permitted to submit victim impact statements 
shall include— 
‘‘(A) producers and sellers of legitimate goods or services 
affected by conduct involved in the offense; 
‘‘(B) holders of intellectual property rights in such goods 
or services; and 
‘‘(C) the legal representatives of such producers, sellers, 
and holders. 
‘‘(e) For the purposes of this section— 
‘‘(1) the term ‘counterfeit mark’ means— 
‘‘(A) a spurious mark— 
‘‘(i) that is used in connection with trafficking in 
any goods, services, labels, patches, stickers, wrap-
pers, badges, emblems, medallions, charms, boxes, 
containers, cans, cases, hangtags, documentation, 
or packaging of any type or nature; 
‘‘(ii) that is identical with, or substantially indis-
tinguishable from, a mark registered on the prin-
cipal register in the United States Patent and 
Trademark Office and in use, whether or not the 
defendant knew such mark was so registered; 
‘‘(iii) that is applied to or used in connection 
with the goods or services for which the mark is 
registered with the United States Patent and 
Trademark Office, or is applied to or consists of a 
label, patch, sticker, wrapper, badge, emblem, me-
dallion, charm, box, container, can, case, hangtag, 
documentation, or packaging of any type or nature 
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that is designed, marketed, or otherwise intended 
to be used on or in connection with the goods or 
services for which the mark is registered in the 
United States Patent and Trademark Office; and 
‘‘(iv) the use of which is likely to cause confu-
sion, to cause mistake, or to deceive; or 
‘‘(B) a spurious designation that is identical with, or 
substantially indistinguishable from, a designation as to 
which the remedies of the Lanham Act are made avail-
able by reason of section 220506 of title 36, 
but such term does not include any mark or designation 
used in connection with goods or services, or a mark or 
designation applied to labels, patches, stickers, wrappers, 
badges, emblems, medallions, charms, boxes, containers, 
cans, cases, hangtags, documentation, or packaging of any 
type or nature used in connection with such goods or serv-
ices, of which the manufacturer or producer was, at the 
time of the manufacture or production in question, author-
ized to use the mark or designation for the type of goods 
or services so manufactured or produced, by the holder of 
the right to use such mark or designation. 
‘‘(2) the term ‘traffic’ means to transport, transfer, or 
otherwise dispose of, to another, for purposes of commer-
cial advantage or private financial gain, or to make, import, 
export, obtain control of, or possess, with intent to so 
transport, transfer, or otherwise dispose of; 
‘‘(3) the term ‘financial gain’ includes the receipt, or ex-
pected receipt, of anything of value; and 
‘‘(4) the term ‘Lanham Act’ means the Act entitled ‘An 
Act to provide for the registration and protection of trade-
marks used in commerce, to carry out the provisions of cer-
tain international conventions, and for other purposes’, ap-
proved July 5, 1946 (15 U.S.C. 1051 et seq.). 
‘‘(f) Nothing in this section shall entitle the United States 
to bring a criminal cause of action under this section for the 
repackaging of genuine goods or services not intended to de-
ceive or confuse. 
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‘‘(g)(1) Beginning with the first year after the date of enact-
ment of this subsection, the Attorney General shall include in 
the report of the Attorney General to Congress on the business 
of the Department of Justice prepared pursuant to section 522 
of title 28, an accounting, on a district by district basis, of the 
following with respect to all actions taken by the Department 
of Justice that involve trafficking in counterfeit labels for 
phonorecords, copies of computer programs or computer pro-
gram documentation or packaging, copies of motion pictures or 
other audiovisual works (as defined in section 2318 of this 
title), criminal infringement of copyrights (as defined in section 
2319 of this title), unauthorized fixation of and trafficking in 
sound recordings and music videos of live musical performances 
(as defined in section 2319A of this title), or trafficking in 
goods or services bearing counterfeit marks (as defined in sec-
tion 2320 of this title): 
‘‘(A) The number of open investigations. 
‘‘(B) The number of cases referred by the United States 
Customs Service. 
‘‘(C) The number of cases referred by other agencies or 
sources. 
‘‘(D) The number and outcome, including settlements, 
sentences, recoveries, and penalties, of all prosecutions 
brought under sections 2318, 2319, 2319A, and 2320 of 
title 18. 
‘‘(2)(A) The report under paragraph (1), with respect to 
criminal infringement of copyright, shall include the following: 
‘‘(i) The number of infringement cases in these cat-
egories: audiovisual (videos and films); audio (sound re-
cordings); literary works (books and musical compositions); 
computer programs; video games; and, others. 
‘‘(ii) The number of online infringement cases. 
‘‘(iii) The number and dollar amounts of fines assessed 
in specific categories of dollar amounts. These categories 
shall be: no fines ordered; fines under $500; fines from 
$500 to $1,000; fines from $1,000 to $5,000; fines from 
$5,000 to $10,000; and fines over $10,000. 
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‘‘(iv) The total amount of restitution ordered in all copy-
right infringement cases. 
‘‘(B) In this paragraph, the term ‘online infringement cases’ 
as used in paragraph (2) means those cases where the in-
fringer— 
‘‘(i) advertised or publicized the infringing work on the 
Internet; or 
‘‘(ii) made the infringing work available on the Internet 
for download, reproduction, performance, or distribution by 
other persons. 
‘‘(C) The information required under subparagraph (A) shall 
be submitted in the report required in fiscal year 2005 and 
thereafter. 
‘‘(h) TRANSSHIPMENT
AND EXPORTATION.—No goods or 
services, the trafficking in of which is prohibited by this sec-
tion, shall be transshipped through or exported from the United 
States. Any such transshipment or exportation shall be deemed 
a violation of section 42 of an Act to provide for the registra-
tion of trademarks used in commerce, to carry out the provi-
sions of certain international conventions, and for other pur-
poses, approved July 5, 1946 (commonly referred to as the 
‘Trademark Act of 1946’ or the ‘Lanham Act’). 
‘‘§ 681. Trafficking in certain motor vehicles or 
motor vehicle parts 
‘‘(a) OFFENSE.—Whoever buys, receives, possesses, or ob-
tains control of, with intent to sell or otherwise dispose of, a 
motor vehicle or motor vehicle part, knowing that an identifica-
tion number for such motor vehicle or part has been removed, 
obliterated, tampered with, or altered, shall be imprisoned not 
more than ten years. 
‘‘(b) NONAPPLICABILITY.—Subsection (a) does not apply if 
the removal, obliteration, tampering, or alteration— 
‘‘(1) is caused by collision or fire; or 
‘‘(2) is not a violation of section 718. 
‘‘(c) DEFINITIONS.—As used in this section, the terms ‘iden-
tification number’ and ‘motor vehicle’ have the meaning given 
those terms in section 718. 
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‘‘§ 682.Chop shops 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.— 
‘‘(1) UNLAWFUL ACTION.—Whoever knowingly owns, op-
erates, maintains, or controls a chop shop or conducts oper-
ations in a chop shop shall be punished by imprisonment 
for not more than 15 years. If a conviction of a person 
under this paragraph is for a violation committed after the 
first conviction of such person under this paragraph, the 
maximum punishment shall be doubled with respect to any 
fine and imprisonment. 
‘‘(2) INJUNCTIONS.—The Attorney General shall, as ap-
propriate, in the case of any person who violates paragraph 
(1), commence a civil action for permanent or temporary 
injunction to restrain such violation. 
‘‘(b) DEFINITION.—For purposes of this section, the term 
‘chop shop’ means any building, lot, facility, or other structure 
or premise where one or more persons engage in receiving, con-
cealing, destroying, disassembling, dismantling, reassembling, 
or storing any passenger motor vehicle or passenger motor ve-
hicle part which has been unlawfully obtained in order to alter, 
counterfeit, deface, destroy, disguise, falsify, forge, obliterate, 
or remove the identity, including the vehicle identification num-
ber or derivative thereof, of such vehicle or vehicle part and to 
distribute, sell, or dispose of such vehicle or vehicle part in 
interstate or foreign commerce. 
‘‘SUBCHAPTER C—COUNTERFEITING AND FORGERY 
‘‘Sec. 
‘‘691.
Counterfeit acts committed outside the United States. 
‘‘692.
Obligations or securities of United States. 
‘‘693.
Uttering counterfeit obligations or securities. 
‘‘694.
Dealing in counterfeit obligations or securities. 
‘‘695.
Plates, stones, or analog, digital, or electronic images for counter-
feiting obligations or securities. 
‘‘696.
Deterrents to counterfeiting of obligations and securities. 
‘‘697.
Taking impressions of tools used for obligations or securities. 
‘‘698.
Possessing or selling impressions of tools used for obligations or se-
curities. 
‘‘699.
Foreign obligations or securities. 
‘‘700.
Uttering counterfeit foreign obligations or securities. 
‘‘701.
Possessing counterfeit foreign obligations or securities. 
‘‘702.
Plates, stones, or analog, digital, or electronic images for counter-
feiting foreign obligations or securities. 
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‘‘703.
Uttering counterfeit foreign bank notes. 
‘‘704.
Connecting parts of different notes. 
‘‘705.
Tokens or paper used as money. 
‘‘706.
Bonds and obligations of certain lending agencies. 
‘‘707.
Contracts, deeds, and powers of attorney. 
‘‘708.
Military or naval discharge certificates. 
‘‘709.
Military, naval, or official passes. 
‘‘710.
Money orders. 
‘‘711.
Postage stamps, postage meter stamps, and postal cards. 
‘‘712.
Printing and filming of United States and foreign obligations and 
securities. 
‘‘713.
Seals of courts; signatures of judges or court officers. 
‘‘714.
Seals of departments or agencies. 
‘‘715.
Forging endorsements on Treasury checks or bonds or securities of 
the United States. 
‘‘716.
Altering or removing motor vehicle identification numbers. 
‘‘717.
Securities of the States and private entities. 
‘‘718.
Fictitious obligations. 
‘‘§ 691. Counterfeit acts committed outside the 
United States 
‘‘Whoever outside the United States, engages in the act of— 
‘‘(1) making, dealing, or possessing any counterfeit obli-
gation or other security of the United States; or 
‘‘(2) making, dealing, or possessing any plate, stone, 
analog, digital, or electronic image, or other thing, or any 
part thereof, used to counterfeit such obligation or security, 
if such act would constitute a violation of section 692, 693, or 
694 if committed within the United States, shall be punished 
as is provided for the like offense within the United States. 
‘‘§ 692. Obligations or securities of United States 
‘‘Whoever, with intent to defraud, falsely makes, forges, 
counterfeits, or alters any obligation or other security of the 
United States, shall be imprisoned not more than 20 years. 
‘‘§ 693. Uttering counterfeit obligations or securi-
ties 
‘‘Whoever, with intent to defraud, passes, utters, publishes, 
or sells, or attempts to pass, utter, publish, or sell, or with like 
intent brings into the United States or keeps in possession or 
conceals any falsely made, forged, counterfeited, or altered obli-
gation or other security of the United States, shall be impris-
oned not more than 20 years. 
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‘‘§ 694. Dealing in counterfeit obligations or secu-
rities 
‘‘Whoever buys, sells, exchanges, transfers, receives, or deliv-
ers any false, forged, counterfeited, or altered obligation or 
other security of the United States, with the intent that the 
same be passed, published, or used as true and genuine, shall 
be imprisoned not more than 20 years. 
‘‘§ 695. Plates, stones, or analog, digital, or elec-
tronic images for counterfeiting obliga-
tions or securities 
‘‘(a) OFFENSE.—Whoever— 
‘‘(1) having control, custody, or possession of any plate, 
stone, or other thing, or any part thereof, from which has 
been printed, or which may be prepared by direction of the 
Secretary of the Treasury for the purpose of printing, any 
obligation or other security of the United States, uses such 
plate, stone, or other thing, or any part thereof, or know-
ingly suffers the same to be used for the purpose of print-
ing any such or similar obligation or other security, or any 
part thereof, except as may be printed for the use of the 
United States by order of the proper officer thereof; 
‘‘(2) makes or executes any plate, stone, or other thing 
in the likeness of any plate designated for the printing of 
such obligation or other security; 
‘‘(3) with intent to defraud, makes, executes, acquires, 
scans,captures, records, receives, transmits, reproduces, 
sells, or has in such person’s control, custody, or posses-
sion, an analog, digital, or electronic image of any obliga-
tion or other security of the United States; 
‘‘(4) sells any such plate, stone, or other thing, or brings 
into the United States any such plate, stone, or other 
thing, except under the direction of the Secretary of the 
Treasury or other proper officer, or with any other intent, 
in either case, than that such plate, stone, or other thing 
be used for the printing of the obligations or other securi-
ties of the United States; 
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‘‘(5) has in his control, custody, or possession any plate, 
stone, or other thing in any manner made after or in the 
similitude of any plate, stone, or other thing, from which 
any such obligation or other security has been printed, with 
intent to use such plate, stone, or other thing, or to suffer 
the same to be used in forging or counterfeiting any such 
obligation or other security, or any part thereof; 
‘‘(6) has in his possession or custody, except under au-
thority from the Secretary of the Treasury or other proper 
officer, any obligation or other security made or executed, 
in whole or in part, after the similitude of any obligation 
or other security issued under the authority of the United 
States, with intent to sell or otherwise use the same; or 
‘‘(7) prints, photographs, or in any other manner makes 
or executes any engraving, photograph, print, or impression 
in the likeness of any such obligation or other security, or 
any part thereof, or sells any such engraving, photograph, 
print, or impression, except to the United States, or brings 
into the United States, any such engraving, photograph, 
print, or impression, except by direction of some proper of-
ficer of the United States; 
shall be imprisoned not more than 25 years. 
‘‘(b) DEFINITION.—For purposes of this section, the term 
‘analog, digital, or electronic image’ includes any analog, dig-
ital, or electronic method used for the making, execution, acqui-
sition, scanning, capturing, recording, retrieval, transmission, 
or reproduction of any obligation or security, unless such use 
is authorized by the Secretary of the Treasury. The Secretary 
shall establish a system (pursuant to section 504) to ensure 
that the legitimate use of such electronic methods and retention 
of such reproductions by businesses, hobbyists, press and oth-
ers shall not be unduly restricted. 
‘‘§ 696. Deterrents to counterfeiting of obligations 
and securities 
‘‘(a) OFFENSE.—Whoever— 
‘‘(1) has in his control or possession, after a distinctive 
paper has been adopted by the Secretary of the Treasury 
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for the obligations and other securities of the United 
States, any similar paper adapted to the making of any 
such obligation or other security, except under the author-
ity of the Secretary of the Treasury; or 
‘‘(2) has in his control or possession, after a distinctive 
counterfeit deterrent has been adopted by the Secretary of 
the Treasury for the obligations and other securities of the 
United States by publication in the Federal Register, any 
essentially identical feature or device adapted to the mak-
ing of any such obligation or security, except under the au-
thority of the Secretary of the Treasury; 
shall be imprisoned for not more than 25 years. 
‘‘(b) DEFINITIONS.—As used in this section— 
‘‘(1) the term ‘distinctive paper’ includes any distinctive 
medium of which currency is made, whether of wood pulp, 
rag, plastic substrate, or other natural or artificial fibers 
or materials; and 
‘‘(2) the term ‘distinctive counterfeit deterrent’ includes 
any ink, watermark, seal, security thread, optically variable 
device, or other feature or device; 
‘‘(A) in which the United States has an exclusive 
property interest; or 
‘‘(B) which is not otherwise in commercial use or in 
the public domain and which the Secretary designates 
as being necessary in preventing the counterfeiting of 
obligations or other securities of the United States. 
‘‘§ 697. Taking impressions of tools used for obli-
gations or securities 
‘‘Whoever, without authority from the United States, takes, 
procures, or makes an impression, stamp, analog, digital, or 
electronic image, or imprint of, from or by the use of any tool, 
implement, instrument, or thing used or fitted or intended to 
be used in printing, stamping, or impressing, or in making 
other tools, implements, instruments, or things to be used or 
fitted or intended to be used in printing, stamping, or impress-
ing any obligation or other security of the United States, shall 
be imprisoned not more than 25 years. 
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‘‘§ 698. Possessing or selling impressions of tools 
used for obligations or securities 
‘‘Whoever— 
‘‘(1) with intent to defraud, possesses, keeps, safeguards, 
or controls, without authority from the United States, any 
imprint, stamp, analog, digital, or electronic image, or im-
pression, taken or made upon any substance or material 
whatsoever, of any tool, implement, instrument or thing, 
used, fitted or intended to be used, for any of the purposes 
mentioned in section 476 of this title; or 
‘‘(2) with intent to defraud, sells, gives, or delivers any 
such imprint, stamp, analog, digital, or electronic image, or 
impression to any other person; 
shall be imprisoned not more than 25 years. 
‘‘§ 699. Foreign obligations or securities 
‘‘Whoever, within the United States, with intent to defraud, 
falsely makes, alters, forges, or counterfeits any bond, certifi-
cate, obligation, or other security of any foreign government, 
purporting to be or in imitation of any such security issued 
under the authority of such foreign government, or any treas-
ury note, bill, or promise to pay, lawfully issued by such foreign 
government and intended to circulate as money, shall be im-
prisoned not more than 20 years. 
‘‘§ 700. Uttering counterfeit foreign obligations or 
securities 
‘‘Whoever, within the United States, knowingly and with in-
tent to defraud, utters, passes, or puts off, in payment or nego-
tiation, any false, forged, or counterfeited bond, certificate, ob-
ligation, security, treasury note, bill, or promise to pay, men-
tioned in section 478 of this title, whether or not the same was 
made, altered, forged, or counterfeited within the United 
States, shall be imprisoned not more than 20 years. 
‘‘§ 701. Possessing counterfeit foreign obligations 
or securities 
‘‘Whoever, within the United States, knowingly and with in-
tent to defraud, possesses or delivers any false, forged, or coun-
terfeit bond, certificate, obligation, security, treasury note, bill, 
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promise to pay, bank note, or bill issued by a bank or corpora-
tion of any foreign country, shall be imprisoned not more than 
20 years. 
‘‘§ 702. Plates, stones, or analog, digital, or elec-
tronic images for counterfeiting foreign 
obligations or securities 
‘‘Whoever— 
‘‘(1) within the United States except by lawful authority, 
controls, holds, or possesses any plate, stone, or other 
thing, or any part thereof, from which has been printed or 
may be printed any counterfeit note, bond, obligation, or 
other security, in whole or in part, of any foreign govern-
ment, bank, or corporation, or uses such plate, stone, or 
other thing, or knowingly permits or suffers the same to be 
used in counterfeiting such foreign obligations, or any part 
thereof; 
‘‘(2) except by lawful authority, makes or engraves any 
plate, stone, or other thing in the likeness or similitude of 
any plate, stone, or other thing designated for the printing 
of the genuine issues of the obligations of any foreign gov-
ernment, bank, or corporation; 
‘‘(3) with intent to defraud, makes, executes, acquires, 
scans, captures, records, receives, transmits, reproduces, 
sells, or has in such person’s control, custody, or posses-
sion, an analog, digital, or electronic image of any bond, 
certificate, obligation, or other security of any foreign gov-
ernment, or of any treasury note, bill, or promise to pay, 
lawfully issued by such foreign government and intended to 
circulate as money; 
‘‘(4) except by lawful authority, prints, photographs, or 
makes, executes, or sells any engraving, photograph, print, 
or impression in the likeness of any genuine note, bond, ob-
ligation, or other security, or any part thereof, of any for-
eign government, bank, or corporation; or 
‘‘(5) brings into the United States any counterfeit plate, 
stone, or other thing, engraving, photograph, print, or 
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other impressions of the notes, bonds, obligations, or other 
securities of any foreign government, bank, or corporation; 
shall be imprisoned not more than 25 years. 
‘‘§ 703. Uttering counterfeit foreign bank notes 
‘‘Whoever, within the United States, utters, passes, puts off, 
or tenders in payment, with intent to defraud, any such false, 
forged, altered, or counterfeited bank note or bill, mentioned in 
section 482 of this title, knowing the same to be so false, 
forged, altered, and counterfeited, whether or not the same was 
made, forged, altered, or counterfeited within the United 
States, shall be imprisoned not more than 20 years. 
‘‘§ 704. Connecting parts of different notes 
‘‘Whoever so places or connects together different parts of 
two or more notes, bills, or other genuine instruments issued 
under the authority of the United States, or by any foreign 
government, or corporation, as to produce one instrument, with 
intent to defraud, shall be guilty of forgery in the same manner 
as if the parts so put together were falsely made or forged, and 
shall be imprisoned not more than 10 years. 
‘‘§ 705. Tokens or paper used as money 
‘‘(a) OFFENSE.—Whoever— 
‘‘(1) being 18 years of age or over, not lawfully author-
ized, makes, issues, or passes any coin, card, token, or de-
vice in metal, or its compounds, intended to be used as 
money, or whoever, being 18 years of age or over, with in-
tent to defraud, makes, utters, inserts, or uses any card, 
token, slug, disk, device, paper, or other thing similar in 
size and shape to any of the lawful coins or other currency 
of the United States or any coin or other currency not legal 
tender in the United States, to procure anything of value, 
or the use or enjoyment of any property or service from 
any automatic merchandise vending machine, postage- 
stamp machine, turnstile, fare box, coinbox telephone, park-
ing meter or other lawful receptacle, depository, or contriv-
ance designed to receive or to be operated by lawful coins 
or other currency of the United States; or 
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‘‘(2) manufactures, sells, offers, or advertises for sale, or 
exposes or keeps with intent to furnish or sell any token, 
slug, disk, device, paper, or other thing similar in size and 
shape to any of the lawful coins or other currency of the 
United States, or any token, disk, paper, or other device 
issued or authorized in connection with rationing or food 
and fiber distribution by any agency of the United States, 
with knowledge or reason to believe that such tokens, slugs, 
disks, devices, papers, or other things are intended to be 
used unlawfully or fraudulently to procure anything of 
value, or the use or enjoyment of any property or service 
from any automatic merchandise vending machine, postage- 
stamp machine, turnstile, fare box, coinbox telephone, park-
ing meter, or other lawful receptacle, depository, or contriv-
ance designed to receive or to be operated by lawful coins 
or other currency of the United States; 
shall be imprisoned not more than one year. 
‘‘(b) NONPREEMPTION.—Nothing contained in this section 
shall create immunity from criminal prosecution under the laws 
of any State. 
‘‘§ 706. Bonds and obligations of certain lending 
agencies 
‘‘Whoever— 
‘‘(1) falsely makes, forges, counterfeits or alters any 
note, bond, debenture, coupon, obligation, instrument, or 
writing in imitation or purporting to be in imitation of, a 
note, bond, debenture, coupon, obligation, instrument or 
writing, issued by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, 
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, National Credit 
Union Administration, Home Owners’ Loan Corporation, 
Farm Credit Administration, Department of Housing and 
Urban Development, or any land bank, intermediate credit 
bank, insured credit union, bank for cooperatives or any 
lending, mortgage, insurance, credit or savings and loan 
corporation or association authorized or acting under the 
laws of the United States; or 
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‘‘(2) passes, utters, or publishes, or attempts to pass, 
utter or publish any note, bond, debenture, coupon, obliga-
tion, instrument or document knowing the same to have 
been falsely made, forged, counterfeited or altered, contrary 
to the provisions of this section; 
shall be imprisoned not more than 10 years. 
‘‘§ 707. Contracts, deeds, and powers of attorney 
‘‘Whoever— 
‘‘(1) falsely makes, alters, forges, or counterfeits any 
deed, power of attorney, order, certificate, receipt, contract, 
or other writing, for the purpose of obtaining or receiving, 
or of enabling any other person, either directly or indi-
rectly, to obtain or receive from the United States or any 
officers or agents thereof, any sum of money; 
‘‘(2) utters or publishes as true any such false, forged, 
altered, or counterfeited writing, with intent to defraud the 
United States, knowing the same to be false, altered, 
forged, or counterfeited; or 
‘‘(3) transmits to, or presents at any office or officer of 
the United States, any such writing in support of, or in re-
lation to, any account or claim, with intent to defraud the 
United States, knowing the same to be false, altered, 
forged, or counterfeited; 
shall be imprisoned not more than ten years. 
‘‘§ 708. Military or naval discharge certificates 
‘‘Whoever forges, counterfeits, or falsely alters any certificate 
of discharge from the military or naval service of the United 
States, or uses, unlawfully possesses or exhibits any such cer-
tificate, knowing the same to be forged, counterfeited, or falsely 
altered, shall be imprisoned not more than one year. 
‘‘§ 709. Military, naval, or official passes 
‘‘Whoever falsely makes, forges, counterfeits, alters, or 
tampers with any naval, military, or official pass or permit, 
issued by or under the authority of the United States, or with 
intent to defraud uses or possesses any such pass or permit, 
or personates or falsely represents himself to be or not to be 
a person to whom such pass or permit has been duly issued, 
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or knowingly allows any other person to have or use any such 
pass or permit, issued for his use alone, shall be imprisoned not 
more than five years. 
‘‘§ 710. Money orders 
‘‘Whoever— 
‘‘(1) with intent to defraud, falsely makes, forges, coun-
terfeits, engraves, or prints any order in imitation of or 
purporting to be a blank money order or a money order 
issued by or under the direction of the Post Office Depart-
ment or Postal Service; 
‘‘(2) forges or counterfeits the signature or initials of 
any person authorized to issue money orders upon or to 
any money order, postal note, or blank therefor provided or 
issued by or under the direction of the Post Office Depart-
ment or Postal Service, or post office department or cor-
poration of any foreign country, and payable in the United 
States, or any material signature or indorsement thereon, 
or any material signature to any receipt or certificate of 
identification thereof; 
‘‘(3) falsely alters, in any material respect, any such 
money order or postal note; 
‘‘(4) with intent to defraud, passes, utters or publishes 
or attempts to pass, utter or publish any such forged or al-
tered money order or postal note, knowing any material ini-
tials, signature, stamp impression or indorsement thereon 
to be false, forged, or counterfeited, or any material alter-
ation therein to have been falsely made; 
‘‘(5) issues any money order or postal note without hav-
ing previously received or paid the full amount of money 
payable therefor, with the purpose of fraudulently obtaining 
or receiving, or fraudulently enabling any other person, ei-
ther directly or indirectly, to obtain or receive from the 
United States or Postal Service, or any officer, employee, 
or agent thereof, any sum of money whatever; 
‘‘(6) embezzles, steals, or knowingly converts to his own 
use or to the use of another, or without authority converts 
or disposes of any blank money order form provided by or 
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under the authority of the Post Office Department or Post-
al Service; 
‘‘(7) receives or possesses any such money order form 
with the intent to convert it to his own use or gain or use 
or gain of another knowing it to have been embezzled, sto-
len or converted; 
‘‘(8) with intent to defraud the United States, the Postal 
Service, or any person, transmits, presents, or causes to be 
transmitted or presented, any money order or postal note 
knowing the same— 
‘‘(A) to contain any forged or counterfeited signa-
ture, initials, or any stamped impression, 
‘‘(B) to contain any material alteration therein un-
lawfully made, 
‘‘(C) to have been unlawfully issued without previous 
payment of the amount required to be paid upon such 
issue, or 
‘‘(D) to have been stamped without lawful authority; 
or 
‘‘(9) steals, or with intent to defraud or without being 
lawfully authorized by the Post Office Department or Post-
al Service, receives, possesses, disposes of or attempts to 
dispose of any postal money order machine or any stamp, 
tool, or instrument specifically designed to be used in pre-
paring or filling out the blanks on postal money order 
forms; 
shall be imprisoned not more than five years. 
‘‘§ 711. Postage stamps, postage meter stamps, and 
postal cards 
‘‘Whoever— 
‘‘(1) forges or counterfeits any postage stamp, postage 
meter stamp, or any stamp printed upon any stamped en-
velope, or postal card, or any die, plate, or engraving there-
of; 
‘‘(2) makes or prints, or knowingly uses or sells, or pos-
sesses with intent to use or sell, any such forged or coun-
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terfeited postage stamp, postage meter stamp, stamped en-
velope, postal card, die, plate, or engraving; 
‘‘(3) makes, or knowingly uses or sells, or possesses with 
intent to use or sell, any paper bearing the watermark of 
any stamped envelope, or postal card, or any fraudulent 
imitation thereof; 
‘‘(4) makes or prints, or authorizes to be made or print-
ed, any postage stamp, postage meter stamp, stamped en-
velope, or postal card, of the kind authorized and provided 
by the Post Office Department or by the Postal Service, 
without the special authority and direction of the Depart-
ment or Postal Service; or 
‘‘(5) after such postage stamp, postage meter stamp, 
stamped envelope, or postal card has been printed, with in-
tent to defraud, delivers the same to any person not au-
thorized by an instrument in writing, duly executed under 
the hand of the Postmaster General and the seal of the 
Post Office Department or the Postal Service, to receive it; 
shall be imprisoned not more than five years. 
‘‘§ 712. Printing and filming of United States and 
foreign obligations and securities 
‘‘Notwithstanding any other provision of this subchapter, the 
following are permitted: 
‘‘(1) The printing, publishing, or importation, or the 
making or importation of the necessary plates for such 
printing or publishing, of illustrations of— 
‘‘(A) postage stamps of the United States, 
‘‘(B) revenue stamps of the United States, 
‘‘(C) any other obligation or other security of the 
United States, and 
‘‘(D) postage stamps, revenue stamps, notes, bonds, 
and any other obligation or other security of any for-
eign government, bank, or corporation. 
Illustrations permitted by the foregoing provisions of this 
section shall be made in accordance with the following con-
ditions— 
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‘‘(i) all illustrations shall be in black and white, ex-
cept that illustrations of postage stamps issued by the 
United States or by any foreign government and 
stamps issued under the Migratory Bird Hunting 
Stamp Act of 1934 may be in color; 
‘‘(ii) all illustrations (including illustrations of 
uncanceled postage stamps in color and illustrations of 
stamps issued under the Migratory Bird Hunting 
Stamp Act of 1934 in color) shall be of a size less than 
three-fourths or more than one and one-half, in linear 
dimension, of each part of any matter so illustrated 
which is covered by subparagraph (A), (B), (C), or (D) 
of this paragraph, except that black and white illustra-
tions of postage and revenue stamps issued by the 
United States or by any foreign government and col-
ored illustrations of canceled postage stamps issued by 
the United States may be in the exact linear dimension 
in which the stamps were issued; and 
‘‘(iii) the negatives and plates used in making the il-
lustrations shall be destroyed after their final use in ac-
cordance with this section. The Secretary of the Treas-
ury shall prescribe regulations to permit color illustra-
tions of such currency of the United States as the Sec-
retary determines may be appropriate for such pur-
poses. 
‘‘(2) The provisions of this section shall not permit the 
reproduction of illustrations of obligations or other securi-
ties, by or through electronic methods used for the acquisi-
tion, recording, retrieval, transmission, or reproduction of 
any obligation or other security, unless such use is author-
ized by the Secretary of the Treasury. The Secretary shall 
establish a system to ensure that the legitimate use of such 
electronic methods and retention of such reproductions by 
businesses, hobbyists, press or others shall not be unduly 
restricted. 
‘‘(3) The making or importation of motion-picture films, 
microfilms, or slides, for projection upon a screen or for 
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