Ethical:
social issues and sensitivities, eg representation of gender, representation of religious beliefs, linguistic usages, accessibility; professional body codes of practice, eg BBC producers’ guidelines, Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) accessibility standards
Legal:
Broadcasting Act 1990 (and later amendments)
Official Secrets Act 1989, Obscene Publications Act 1959 (and later amendments)
Films Act 1985,
Video Recordings Act 1984
Race Relations Act 1976 (and later amendments)
Human Rights Act 1998
Licensing Act 2003 (and later amendments); privacy law; copyright and intellectual property law; libel law.
Legal
People who work in the creative media industry have certain rules and regulations that they must follow. An example of this is a famous case that happened this year, a footballer, Rio Ferdinand tried to get an injunction about an affair he was having however his request was denied.
Broadcasting act 1990.
The aim of the broadcasting act of 1990 is to reform the entire structure of British broadcasting. The British Broadcasting act basically restricts what is published in the UK. This act was opposed at first by people, for example the Labour Party.
Official secrets aid 1989.
This basically is a rule used in the UK, Ireland, India, New Zealand and Malaysia for legislation that provides state protection and official information, usually related to national security. More known as keeping state ‘secrets’. For example, if a member of the royal family was in a different country, there's a worldwide injunction that says nobody can publish in a magazine or newspaper where they are incase they are under threat.
Obscene Publications Act. 1959
A law that relates to the publication of a matter. This law lets things be published to a certain extent for the welfare of the public. An example of breaching this law could be if a pornographic magazine was to publish something that hadn't been classified.
Films Act 1985
To help with the financing of the film and give rules. The film must always be registered etc. A breach of this would be if the film wasn't classified yet released.
Video recording acts 1984
This means the videos made have to pass rules set by the home office before going on sale. The video recordings published must carry a classification that has been agreed on upon the Home Office. An example of breaching this law would be if you were purchasing a film that hadn't already been released or classified.
Race relations act 1976
Race relations act 1976
This was basically made to stop the discrimination of race. The race relations law is a law made to make sure people aren’t discriminated again because of their race. A breach of this law is if you were to dismiss someone from an oppurtunity purely on their race.
Human rights act
To make sure everybody gets a fair say and have certain rights. Human rights means everybody has their own right to do what they like, aslong as it's not breaking the law. A breach of this would be telling people about somebodys personal things when you had already been told not to by the law.
Licensing act of 2003.
This act only applies to England and Wales. This act is basically what you have to pass if you’re going to show something in public on tv, e.g, skysports, you also have to pass certain regulations. Premises also have flexible opening hours for the premises, consideration of the hours on the local public and local businesses. A breach of this would be if they didn't pass regulations yet still went ahead and shown skysports etc.
Privacy Laws
This law deals with a certain persons personal information to give them a certain extent of privacy if needed etc. It also deals with peoples personal information if forms of health, financial, online, communication and privacy in one's home.
Libel Law
Laws stating that no slander or detamation shall be aimed at one particular individual or group etc. Laws relating to writing something about someone that damages their reputation and isn't true.
Copyright
Copyright protects written, theatrical, music and artistic works as well as films, book layouts, sound recordings and broadcasts. Copyright is an automatic right, which means you dont have to apply for it. Copyright can protect literary works, including novels, instruction manuals and so on. A breach of copyright would be to download somebody elses music and say it is your own.
Intellectual property
IP refers to creations of the mind: inventions, literary and artistic works, and symbols, names, images and designs used in commerce. IP results from the expression of an idea. So IP might be a brand, an invention, a design, a song or another intellectual creation. IP can be owned, bought and sold. A breach of this could be taking a design from somebody else without buying it and selling it on asthough your the original artist.
Ofcom - Ofcom stands for Office of Communication, it is the communications regulator. They regulate the TV and radio sectors, fixed line telecoms and mobiles plus the airwaves over which wireless devices operate. For example, Ofcom were the one's who launched an inquiry into the News of The World phone hacking scandal.
BBFC
BBFC
BBFC stands for the British Board of Film Classification. It basically says what age group can watch a film. For example. If a film wanted to attract the audience of 15 year olds, they would have to pass the requirements, it could only have a certain amount of sex scenes and strong language in the film. If it had more than allowed, they would have to cut parts out of the film, or the age stamp would have to be changed so it would meet the requirements.
ASA - Advertising Standards Authority, the UK's independent regulator of advertising across all meia, including marketing on websites. They work to ensure ads are legal, decent, honest and truthful by applying the advertising codes. If they don't approve of what is being viewed by people, they will get rid of it. The ASA is a non-statutory organisation and so cannot interpret or enforce legislation. However, its code of advertising practice broadly reflects legislation in many instances. The ASA is not funded by the British Government, but by a levy on the advertising industry.
Codes of practice
A code of practice is a set of written rules that explain how people working in a particular profession should behave. For example, whether they have to wear a uniform and how they can behave towards customers and so on. A professional body writes the guidelines to it's members to help them comply with it's ethical standards.
Editors of code of practice
The code of practice makes sure people working in the industry deal with things correctly and tell you how you should behave so that it is in a correct and professional way for the envioronment you are in. Basically all the members of the press have to protect peoples rights of their home life, children, accuracy hospitals and so on.
Media representation
Media representation means the way somebody portrays somebody else and whether they do it fairly. If they don't and people think they're describing their race unfairly, then they will ring up and complain an Ofcom will look into it. Representation would be things such as age, gender, class and ethnicity. For example, there is stereotypical views when it comes to an area in Manchester, Mosside, it has a reputation for being a rough and violent area filled with gangs and guns.
ASA - Advertising Standards Authority, the UK's independent regulator of advertising across all meia, including marketing on websites. They work to ensure ads are legal, decent, honest and truthful by applying the advertising codes. If they don't approve of what is being viewed by people, they will get rid of it. The ASA is a non-statutory organisation and so cannot interpret or enforce legislation. However, its code of advertising practice broadly reflects legislation in many instances. The ASA is not funded by the British Government, but by a levy on the advertising industry.
Codes of practice
A code of practice is a set of written rules that explain how people working in a particular profession should behave. For example, whether they have to wear a uniform and how they can behave towards customers and so on. A professional body writes the guidelines to it's members to help them comply with it's ethical standards.
Editors of code of practice
The code of practice makes sure people working in the industry deal with things correctly and tell you how you should behave so that it is in a correct and professional way for the envioronment you are in. Basically all the members of the press have to protect peoples rights of their home life, children, accuracy hospitals and so on.
Media representation
Media representation means the way somebody portrays somebody else and whether they do it fairly. If they don't and people think they're describing their race unfairly, then they will ring up and complain an Ofcom will look into it. Representation would be things such as age, gender, class and ethnicity. For example, there is stereotypical views when it comes to an area in Manchester, Mosside, it has a reputation for being a rough and violent area filled with gangs and guns.
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