I may be wrong but I believe the law on recording others’ conversations is that you can’t do it without their knowledge, but that doesn’t require their permission. Permission is effectively granted if the person being recorded continues speaking after being told they are being recorded.
I can see circumstances where a strata committee might want to record meetings, especially where there is a disruptive member or guest. The question of intellectual property rights is irrelevant unless the person doing the recording was planning to distort and misuse or commercialise the recording.
If I am correct on the permission/information question, the guest at the meeting who declined to say whether or not they were recording was sailing close to the wind if they then continued to record, as they haven’t informed those present that they were being recorded.
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