On 4 April 2011 11:55, Martin Poulter M.L.Poulter@bristol.ac.uk wrote:
Oh I see, they were the first to render it into a medium. That makes more sense.
Yes, my interpretation was that it's the first person to fix it in any medium. As a general rule, a change of medium does not invalidate previous copyright (although it can do if you are changing it to such an extent that it's the same information but a completely different presentation of it - transcribing a video wouldn't qualify as that, although summarising the video might).