Thursday 3 November 2011

Ethical and Legal constraints within the media sector

Race relations Act-The race relation act was first introduced by the parliment of the united kingdom so that there was equality within the industry.For example quite alot of football manegers are white , very few are black but there are alot of black football players so what the F.A have come up with is that evry maneger they interview for a certain team a black male is preffered to get interviewd so its equal.

Human Rights Act-Evry human being is entitled to human rights ,
Human rights can be classified and organized in a number of different ways, at an international level the most common categorisation of human rights has been to split them into civil and political rights, and economic, social and cultural rights.

Copyright-copyright is were a person creates something out of his own intellegence or comes up with a certain idea or song and someone else publisizes it or uses it as there own work.

privacy law-privacy law sort of comes into human rights also because evry one has the right to privacy, by breaching someones privacy a person publishing a indecent picture in a newspaper article .Although people may argue that its in the publics intrest , people have diffrent views.

Broadcasting Act-Broadcasting act is a law introduced for certain shows get previewed at the right time and has the right context in the programme so that young viewers arnt encouraged or listening to certain scenes.

Intellectual property law-Is if a person was to come up with an idea for a drink,chocolate bar, etc.. , and someone nicked it and used it asif it was there own that would be breaching the intellectual property law.

libel Law-No slander aimed at a certain individual or a group, An early example of libel would be the case of John Peter Zenger. Zenger was hired to publish New York Weekly Journal. When he printed another man’s article that criticized William Cosby, the governor of New York at the time, Zenger was accused of seditious libel.

Official secrets Act-provides for the protection of state secrets and official information, mainly related to national security.

Obscene publications-If material that is viewed as unpleasent is published in a newspaper article or a magazine etc. the person would be breeching the law.

BBFC-the bbfc is responsible for classification of films,tv programmes, games, television adverts, for example a U rating :only aloud mild language like bugger or damb , hardley and graphic violence or sexual activity is aloud.The bbfc rate the films from U-18 by measuring the context within the film.

OFCOM- is the government-approved regulatory authority for the broadcasting and
telecommunications industries in the United Kingdom.

CODES OF PRACTICE-code of practice is a set of written rules witch explains how people work in a particular proffesion should behave.For example

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