2. Race relations act 1976
The BBC last night launched an inquiry into a job
advertisement that appeared to flagrantly breach the Race
Relations Act by seeking an Oriental or Asian person to
front a new series.
The makers of a ten-part BBC2 science programme sent a
wish list of attributes they were looking for to, among
others, casting directors, agents and management
companies.
It said they were seeking a "young, zany Oriental or Asian
person with a science background". But even the science
background could be ditched, the advert implied, for the
right ethnic man or woman.
3. Human Rights Act 1998
Unaired footage of Clarkson screened on our
website showed him reciting the beginning of the
children’s nursery rhyme before apparently
mumbling: “Catch a n***er by his toe.”
Clarkson said he “mumbled where the offensive
word would normally occur” in two takes, and
used the word “teacher” in its place in a third
He then made a video apologising for the
comment.
4. Licensing Act 2003
The Act sets out four licensing objectives which must
be taken into account when a local authority carries
out its functions. They are:
the prevention of crime and disorder,
public safety,
prevention of public nuisance, and
the protection of children from harm
5. Privacy law
Privacy in English law is a developing area of English
law that considers in what situations an individual has
a legal right to informational privacy the protection of
personal or private information from unauthorised
disclosure.
The guardian the latest scandal was very recent and it
was about the news of the world phone hacking
celebrities to find out things that should’ve remained
out of the public domain, they were sued and the
paper has now been shut down completely
6. Copyright & Intellectual Property
Law
Under intellectual property law, owners are granted certain
exclusive rights to a variety of intangible assets, such as
musical, literary, and artistic works, words, phrases,
symbols, and designs. Common types of intellectual
property rights include copyright, trademarks, patents,
industrial design rights, trade dress, and in some
jurisdictions trade secrets.
The way to stop people ripping you off is get your idea
patented and copyright.
For example, it was made illegal to download music
without the right from the owner.
7. Libel Law
Libel is published defamation of character, as opposed
to spoken defamation of character, which is then
slander.
Libel is when the defamation is written down, which
includes email, bulletin boards, websites e.g: social
media sites. Which can then be taken to court as
evidence.
An example of this is when the Comedian Frankie
Boyle won £54,650 in damages after he took the Daily
Mirror to court after they had libelled him by
describing him as ‘racist’.
8. Obscene Publication Act
This act made it illegal to publish any form of work
which is obscene, this was then extended to include
films and videos in 1977.
An example of this act is David Britton’s ‘Lord Horror’
which was banned under the act, but then later
overturned.
9. Broadcasting Act
The Broadcasting Act 1990 is a law of the British parliament,
often regarded by both its supporters and its critics as a
quintessential example of Thatcherism. The aim of the Act was
to reform the entire structure of British broadcasting; British
television, in particular, had earlier been described by Margaret
Thatcher as "the last bastion of restrictive practices".
It led directly to the abolition of the Independent Broadcasting
Authority and its replacement with the Independent Television
Commission and Radio Authority (both themselves now
replaced by Ofcom), which were given the remit of regulating
with a "lighter touch" and did not have such strong powers as the
IBA; some referred to this as "deregulation"
