The document discusses various legal and ethical constraints faced by the media industry, including employment legislation, intellectual property, liability, copyright, employees' rights, opportunities, confidentiality, and codes of practice. It notes that constraints can be defined by law or common practice. Balancing these issues can be difficult for media organizations, as they must follow their own ethical guidelines while complying with regulatory codes of conduct.
Legal n ethical obligations of the tv and film industry.
1. actual issues in the media industry
l, ethical & contractual obligations in the TV & film industries with
2. straints on the media industry
e covering:
yment legislation
Intellectual property
yer liability
Copyright
liability
Codes of practice
yees rights
Representation and ethics
pportunities
cts
vity
entiality
3. a constraint?
d up by the law (legal constraint)
d up by practice but isn't necessarily a law.
4. loyment legislation
y be unhealthy or dangerous.
nd increasing risk of a fire. See here - http://www.bllaw.co.uk/pdf/EMP_0209_C
5. iability insurance
969 - www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/hse40.pdf
e safety on set, in this incidence if they were found guilty then the insuranc
6. ic liability
aused harm or injury to a member of the public.
y try to hold you responsible for their injury and say they're going to sue you, this
7. oyees rights
the right to carry on working until you are at least 65” and rights und
8. pportunities
nds of sex, race or disability. Discrimination against someone on these grounds is illegal, he
9. lusivity
sivity agreement you cannot work with another company or anyone
until a certain amount of time had passed after broadcast (details dep
10. identiality
assed from one party to the other or was created by one party) confidential (meani
mas.
show and knows what happens may have to sign a confidentiality agreement con
11. tual property
in their performances, producers of phonograms in their recordings, and broadcasters in their radio an
belongs to the screenwriter, however once s/he sells the script to a production company to create and b
12.
blish a work, recordings of a work, broadcasts of a work. It is the right to p
13. pyright
/TV show. For example,in a film, copyright exists in the film sound track, the film screenplay, the set d
k. The film and TV industries rely on copyright to protect their interests and their right to generate inco
d your self the idea in a letter in the post and never open the letter, this way you can prove you thought
14. of practise
icial body/professional association to its members to help them follow ethical stan
egularly update
/files/downloads/Five%20Code%20of%20Practice.pdf
15. ation and ethics
clude:
clude
Each media organisation
follows it's own set of
guidelines which is
governed by the ofcom
code of practise.
It is difficult to balance all of
these issues.
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