The recording of a transitory work by someone other than the creator of the transitory work creates a complicated legal situation. On one hand, the transitory work itself is not granted copyright protection, however, a audio or video recording of a transitory work is granted a copyright. When a transitory work is recorded, the copyright is granted to the person recording the transitory work, but not the artist that performed the work. While this may seem unfair to the artist that conceived of the transitory work, it is a fundamental aspect of copyright law that a copyright is only granted when the work is fixed in a tangible medium.