If I am in a meeting and I tape that meeting, am I violating any law? Live in Texas. Can I share that tape?

If I share that tape with another party can they use the tape as evidence without violating any law?If I am in a meeting and I tape that meeting, am I violating any law? Live in Texas. Can I share that tape?
so long as a wire, oral, or electronic communication—including the radio portion of any cordless telephone call—is not recorded for a criminal or tortious purpose, anyone who is a party to the communication, or who has the consent of a party, can lawfully record the communication and disclose its contents. Texas Penal Code § 16.02.



Under the statute, consent is not required for the taping of a non-electronic communication uttered by a person who does not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in that communication. See definition of “oral communication,” Texas Code Crim. Pro. Art. 18.20.



A person whose wire, oral, or electronic communication is intercepted or disclosed has a civil cause of action against the interceptor or discloser. Texas Civ. Prac. %26amp; Rem. Code § 123.002. Such a person is entitled to recover $10,000 for each occurrence, actual damages in excess of $10,000, as well as punitive damages and attorney fees and costs. Texas Civ. Prac. %26amp; Rem. Code § 123.004.



In addition, unlawful recording of a conversation or disclosure of its contents with reason to know of the illegal interception is a felony punishable by two to 20 years in prison and a fine not to exceed $10,000. Texas Penal Code § 12.33.



The U.S. Court of Appeals in New Orleans (5th Cir.) held in 2000 that a television station and reporter who obtained illegally recorded tapes of telephone conversations, but who had not participated in the illegal recording, could nonetheless be held civilly liable under the federal and Texas wiretapping statutes. Peavy v. WFAA-TV, Inc., 221 F.3d 158 (5th Cir. 2000). The case was appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, along with two other cases raising similar issues. The Supreme Court refused to hear the Texas case but decided in one of the other cases, Bartnicki v. Vopper, 532 U.S. 514 (2001), that media defendants could not be held liable for publishing information of public concern that was obtained unlawfully by a source where the media were blameless in the illegal interception. Following the Bartnicki decision, the parties in the Peavy case settled out of court.If I am in a meeting and I tape that meeting, am I violating any law? Live in Texas. Can I share that tape?
No if you had to use it in a brief case then it's illegal over hearings. These hearings cannot be used in courts as evidence. Your not actually violating a law since you and your briefcase were permitting in the meeting, but you cannot use the recording in court. The only time something like this can be used is in criminal matters, such as police misconduct when a cop mistakenly violates your civil rights and it's on tape. Then the robber said this and that on tape etc...