Using copyright laws to prevent legal recordings

Bloomberg recorded the call and offered a transcript to its subscribers. Pretty standard stuff. But… here, Swatch claimed copyright on the call. Why? Because they also recorded it (via a partner company), and since that recording was “fixed,” they could claim that it was covered by copyright, and then sued Bloomberg.

Interesting, but still undecided. I find it hard to believe the court system won’t take these kinds of implications into account in their ruling.