Legal And Ethical Considerations

Copyright

• Copyright is when somebody uses somebody else's material without getting consent.

• Music,images,text or video can be some of the material that people copyright.

• The pressure it puts on the media is that 1 producer is not allowed to use another producers track unless they get permission or be fined, if they go ahead and use.

Advantages & DisadvantagesAdvantages: Disadvantages:

•Nobody can use your material without asking.

•Can earn money off fining people that use material without asking.

•Being fined if you use material without asking.

Real Life Example: Copyright

• Jan 30th 2011 – ITunes breaks copyright as it was allowing Russian films to be downloaded to smart phones without the owners permission.

• Apple took action as soon as they received a complaint about the issue.

Libel

• Libel is defamation within written words or images.• Libel is a civil offence which is to help protect the reputation of

a company or individual.

• The constraint could be o2 and t-mobile battling it out for customers, o2 could publish a article saying that t-mobile sells damaged handsets to customers which is classed as defamation.

Advantages & DisadvantagesAdvantages: Disadvantages:

•Information could be all lies.

•Lack of evidence can make a claim invalid.

•Lawyers can sometimes defend the lie’s in cases and actually come out winning, even though its all lies.

•Action can be taken if the news/information is true or even lies.

•Evidence can be tracked very quickly.

Real Life Example: Libel

• Sept 12th 2013 – Madeleine McCann family seeking £1m of damages from Portuguese police chief has begun in London.

• Gonocalo Amaral wrote a book declaring that McCann was dead and her parents had lied about what happened.

Ethical Considerations- Legal

• Racial and religious hatred is classed as a offence.

• People need to be careful when they are on the phone making racial comments, as all can be tracked and traced back to you.

• There should be no exceptions for ANY sign of racial/religious/gender abuse.

Advantages & Disadvantages - Legal

Advantages: Disadvantages:

•Charges for claims of any sign of abuse.

•Jail sentences for offenders.

•Victims could be scarred for life.

•Victims could be scared to leave the house in case it happens again.

•May conclude to suicide.

Ethical Considerations Representation- Ethical Constraints

• Ethical constraint(represent) is aiming something for the type of person you are.

• In the media they have the responsibility to represent all of the groups of people (sexual orientation,belief,disability and gender.)

• Media pressure will very hard as you will need to be very careful as to how you get things across to people.

Advantages & Disadvantages - Representation

Advantages: Disadvantages:

•False Accusations

•Could hurt somebody’s feelings.

•Stereotyping.

•Prejudice.

•Bad language.

•Violence.

•Can target certain things at different types of people.

•Free speech may be allowed at times.

•Opinions allowed.

Real Life Example – Ethical

• Sept 5th 2011 – Doctors from Birmingham and Manchester have been accused of offering abortions based on gender on unborn child.

• Is that right or wrong..?

Privacy• Privacy is a respect to give you the right for a private life for

you and your family.

• Privacy can be anything from not having visitors to the house when a relative/friend is there or not wanting paparazzi in the arena where you are performing.

• Media pressure is again very hard on this topic, if you are in the public eye all of the time you just have NO privacy what so ever.

Advantages & Disadvantages - Privacy

Advantages: Disadvantages:

•Good Press.

•Get you into the public eye.

•Press can make your career.

•Can seek legal advice.

•Can wreck your life.

•Cause trouble between 2/3/4 people.

•Invades your privacy.

Real Life Example - Privacy • Feb 2009 – Chris Brown arrested after alleged Rihanna

assault.

• Once the press had got a hold of them pictures of Rihanna’s face as to what he had done that was it, they were all over.

• That girl had NO privacy over what he had done to her and she couldn't do anything about it as the press have so much authority.