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:
people who work in the creative media induestries have certain rules and regulations that they must abide by.
people who work in the creative media induestries have certain rules and regulations that they must abide by.
Broadcasting Act 1990 (and later amendments),
A series of laws that relate to what is legal and illegal to broadcast on television and radio.
Official Secrets Act 1989,
Obscene Publications Act 1959 (and later amendments)
Art of parliment of the UK's parliment. This created offences of the disclosure of information and breach of offficial trust..
Films Act 1985
laws that concern film finance and defining british films.
Video Recordings Act 1984
laws stating that all rules that are sold or available for rental must be classified by the BBC.
Race Relations Act 1976
Established by the parliment of parliment on the UK to prevent any discrimination.
Human Rights Act 1998,
rights that belong justifiably to every person.
Licensing Act
The Licensing Act 2003 became law on 24 November 2005.
Licensing objectives
Licensing authorities operate according to four licensing objectives, to make sure that licensable activities are carried out in public interest.
- the preventation of crime and disorder
- public safety
- the preventation of public nuisance
- the protection of children from harm
Privacy Laws
the right to be left alone. Privacy laws are considered in the context of an individuals rights or expectations of privacy. This is to ensure that producers can avoid infringement of privacy in programmes and in connection with obtaining material included in programmes, any infringment of privacy must be warranted.
An example of breaching someones privacy is like the phone hacking scandal.
Copyright
copyright protects written theatrical, musical and artistic works as well as film, book layouts, sound recordings and broadcasts. This is an automationc right, so you dont have to apply for it.
An example of breaching copyright rules is if sombody wrote a song for their favourite band or artist and they decided to bring out that song and didnt say that they wrote it then they would be breaking copright rules, for not includig them.
Libel Laws
Laws stating that no slander or discrimination will be aimed at one particular individual or group.
intellectual property
This refers to creations of the mind, litterally and artistic works, symbols, names, images, and designs. IP results from the expansion of an idea So IP might be a band, invention, song or another intellectual creation.
A series of laws that relate to what is legal and illegal to broadcast on television and radio.
Official Secrets Act 1989,
Obscene Publications Act 1959 (and later amendments)
Art of parliment of the UK's parliment. This created offences of the disclosure of information and breach of offficial trust..
Films Act 1985
laws that concern film finance and defining british films.
Video Recordings Act 1984
laws stating that all rules that are sold or available for rental must be classified by the BBC.
Race Relations Act 1976
Established by the parliment of parliment on the UK to prevent any discrimination.
Human Rights Act 1998,
rights that belong justifiably to every person.
Licensing Act
The Licensing Act 2003 became law on 24 November 2005.
Licensing objectives
Licensing authorities operate according to four licensing objectives, to make sure that licensable activities are carried out in public interest.
- the preventation of crime and disorder
- public safety
- the preventation of public nuisance
- the protection of children from harm
Privacy Laws
the right to be left alone. Privacy laws are considered in the context of an individuals rights or expectations of privacy. This is to ensure that producers can avoid infringement of privacy in programmes and in connection with obtaining material included in programmes, any infringment of privacy must be warranted.
An example of breaching someones privacy is like the phone hacking scandal.
Copyright
copyright protects written theatrical, musical and artistic works as well as film, book layouts, sound recordings and broadcasts. This is an automationc right, so you dont have to apply for it.
An example of breaching copyright rules is if sombody wrote a song for their favourite band or artist and they decided to bring out that song and didnt say that they wrote it then they would be breaking copright rules, for not includig them.
Libel Laws
Laws stating that no slander or discrimination will be aimed at one particular individual or group.
intellectual property
This refers to creations of the mind, litterally and artistic works, symbols, names, images, and designs. IP results from the expansion of an idea So IP might be a band, invention, song or another intellectual creation.
This was an act of the parliament of the UK. This created offences of disclosure of information and breach of official trust. This is illegal to disclose information regarding national security.
Codes of practice
a code of practice is a set of written rules which explains how people that work in particular proffesions should behave within that proffession., these rules are written by a proffesssional or official body to help them follow legal and ethical standards.
Editors code of practice
Newspaper and magazines industrys code of practice, all members of the press have a duty to maintain the highest proffessional standards, making sure that the industry follow those ethical standards, in order to protect both the rights of an individual and also also the publics right to know things. It is essential that an agreed code of practice is set and dhould be honored by all editors, its the responsibillity of editors and publishers to apply the code.
Codes of practice
a code of practice is a set of written rules which explains how people that work in particular proffesions should behave within that proffession., these rules are written by a proffesssional or official body to help them follow legal and ethical standards.
Editors code of practice
Newspaper and magazines industrys code of practice, all members of the press have a duty to maintain the highest proffessional standards, making sure that the industry follow those ethical standards, in order to protect both the rights of an individual and also also the publics right to know things. It is essential that an agreed code of practice is set and dhould be honored by all editors, its the responsibillity of editors and publishers to apply the code.
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