Creative Digital Media Production Unit 8: Lesson 5

List the legal restraints on Media companies and insert information about what they mean...
Constraint/Law
defamation
Equality laws
Privacy laws
The data protection act
The freedom of
information act
Intellectual property law

The copyright act

Health and safety

Explanation
Writing or saying something that is not true about someone (libel/slander)
These prevents anyone from taking advantage or discriminating against someone on
grounds of race, sexual ordination, gender or age. These include the race
discrimination act
These prevent journalists from publishing private facts about individuals unless it can
be proved that knowing the fact is in the public interest
This prevents any confidential information or data held on a electric computer files
being distributing without the permission of the person concerned
This allows an individual or a body to request access to information that is held on
computer files by a professional organisation or government body
Under intellectual property law owners are granted certain exclusive rights to assets
such as musical literary and artistic works discoveries and inventions and words
phrases symbols and designs common types of intellectual property rights include
copyright trademark patents industrial design rights trade dress and in some
jurisdiction trade secrets
This and its associated laws are very important to media production copyright is held
for most assets that used as part of a media product including music words recordings
Archie footage photographs or newsreel clips a product must seek permission from
the copyright owner and pay the royalties
Employers are responsible for employees safety they need to perform risk
assessments of activities. The benefits of health and safety are employees are safe,
stopping law suits, no one will work with you if the work place is safe and happy work
force

Case Study
Perform some research into how one of these laws has been broken in the media.
Collect that information into a PowerPoint and upload it to Weebly.