This document discusses various legal and ethical issues related to creating a magazine. It covers health and safety regulations to protect workers, as well as regulations around intellectual property, copyright, and data protection. Accurately portraying subjects and following the editor's code of practice is important to avoid legal issues or damaging someone's career. Permissions are required to use other's content or images to avoid plagiarism accusations. Health and safety of photo shoot participants must also be considered. In conclusion, following relevant laws and guidelines is essential to safely and legally produce the magazine.

1. Unit 14- LO2

2. Contents
• Location Recce - 3
• Hazards at the work place- 4
• Ethical/ Legal -5-10
• Conclusion -11

4. Hazards at the work place
• The health and safety at work act has thirteen different headings and
ten schedules. They are the following general duties, commission,
regulations and provisions. This can be about the worker looking after
themselves as well as anyone else who could be involved or affected
by their line of work. It is also in the law that all workers must be
stationed at a place where the health and safety regulations are
controlled and that no danger can occur to them and if there are
problems with them they will need to speak to their manager or
supervisor with in their work force.

5. Ethical & Legal Issues.
Source: http://www.pcc.org.uk/
All press complaints are handled by a regulated body. As the slide suggests handling complaints was switched to IPSO who
now handle all complaints relating to press organizations.

6. Role of Relevant Regulatory Bodies
The Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) is the independent regulator for the newspaper and
magazine industry in the UK. We hold newspapers and magazines to account for their actions, protect
individual rights, uphold high standards of journalism and help to maintain freedom of expression for the
press.
◾They make sure that member newspapers and magazines follow the Editors' Code.
◾They investigate complaints about printed and online material that may breach the Editors’ Code.
Source: https://www.ipso.co.uk/about-ipso/

7. Editors code of practice
• Accuracy:
• The Press must take care not to publish inaccurate, misleading or distorted information or images, including headlines not supported by the text.
• A significant inaccuracy, misleading statement or distortion must be corrected, promptly and with due prominence, and — where appropriate
— an apology published. In cases involving IPSO, due prominence should be as required by the regulator.
• A fair opportunity to reply to significant inaccuracies should be given, when reasonably called for.
• The Press, while free to editorialise and campaign, must distinguish clearly between comment, conjecture and fact.
• Privacy:
• Everyone is entitled to respect for his or her private and family life, home, health and correspondence, including digital communications.
• Editors will be expected to justify intrusions into any individual's private life without consent. Account will be taken of the complainant's own
public disclosures of information.
• It is unacceptable to photograph individuals, without their consent, in public or private places where there is a reasonable expectation of
privacy.
The reason why I have to be these things when I am creating an article on an artist is because I as the writer have the potential to
destroy someone's career depending on the way I phrase things or if someone has a different perspective from me. Therefore, I
will need to write down the article in a way where everyone will be able to understand it and not let there be misunderstanding
between the public and artist which can affect their career on a whole.
https://www.ipso.co.uk/editors-code-of-practice/

8. Copyright ©
• Copyright- is when there is a legal right which lasts for a certain amount of years
so you can’t print, publish, perform, film, or record literary, artistic or musical
material that already exists.
• This means that if I take images from anyone without their permission I could get
prosecuted for plagiarism. This can also be used for my own benefit as it is a
system that protects me from having my own images used for another format
without my permission allowing me to prosecute them and get money from it.

9. Intellectual property (IP) refers to creations of the mind, such as inventions, literary and artistic works, designs, and
symbols, names and images used in commerce. IP is protected in law by, for example, patents, copyright and
trademarks, which enable people to earn recognition or financial benefit from what they invent or create.
As well as IP on printed work, you can get a digital watermark which protects any copyrighted content from any
magazine online and in any digital format. It is important to have this because it means people will have to pay you
to use your information/ ideas. The best way to protect your IP is to acquire a patent. However, this can take several
years to get and costs over $7000 in fees.
IP/Watermark

10. Data protection act 1988
• The Data Protection Act controls how your personal information is
used by organizations, businesses or the government. They must
insure the information is :used lawfully fairly, used for limited and
specifically stated purposes.
• Since my magazine has used the information fairly and is limited for
the specific purpose for the aimed magazine audience.
https://www.gov.uk/data-protection/the-data-protection-act

11. Conclusion
• To conclude these slides it is important to take in account the
health and safety of all the workers who are participating in
the production of the magazine. If I am given the chance to
do another photo-shoot I will need to make sure that the
photos that are taken are within safety regulations as well as
follow the regulations for legal and ethical as well as
following the editors code. This will make sure that I am not
using the photos for anything but the magazine otherwise I
can be sued for misuse of material.