The legal and ethical practice of informing all participants on a call that the meeting is being recorded or transcribed. Recording-disclosure laws vary by jurisdiction: many US states require only one-party consent (the person initiating the recording), while California, Florida, and most of the EU require all-party consent. In practice, responsible meeting copilots disclose recording at join time with a visible banner, an audio chime, or both — even in jurisdictions where one-party consent is sufficient, because the trust cost of a participant feeling surreptitiously recorded is far higher than the friction cost of disclosure. The disclosure should name what's being captured (audio, transcript, AI-generated summaries) and give participants a clear path to object.