It used to be perfectly legal to record your own conversations, whether or not the other party knew that you were doing it (I don't know if this is still true, though).
Where it gets muddy is whether playing the recording to other people constitutes fair-use. I would say that if it can be proved that the intention or use was actually malicious, then he's in trouble.
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Date: 2003-07-25 02:29 am (UTC)Where it gets muddy is whether playing the recording to other people constitutes fair-use. I would say that if it can be proved that the intention or use was actually malicious, then he's in trouble.