Legal issues in the media industry include copyright protection of original materials, anti-discrimination laws in hiring, and other workplace regulations around health and safety, liability, trademarks, and equal opportunities. Ethics refer to the moral principles that guide how groups or individuals act, and the media industry faces ethical questions around privacy, truth, exploitation, offensive materials, and fair representation of facts, people, and events. Other ethical concerns incorporate fairness, consent from contributors, accuracy, avoiding harm or offense.

1. Legal and ethical considerations

2. Legal issues in the media industry
• Copyright is a massive issue the media industry faces.
• It protects their original material so that it cant be used in anyone
else's name.
• It is illegal to discriminate anyone when recruiting in the workplace.

3. Other legal issues
• Health and safety
• Employers liability
• Employers rights
• Trademarks
• Equal opportunities
• Confidentiality
• Exclusivity

4. What is ethics
• Ethics are the moral principles that define how a group or person
acts. However there are some issues in the ethical side of the media
industry such as:
• Privacy
• Truth
• Mostly truth

5. Ethical issues in the media industry
• Ethical issues
Morality issues such as right and wrong have been considered.
Exploitation and sensationalism have also been taken into account.
Offensive material such as copyright or privacy. These are not usually
enforced by law. Regulatory bodies and codes of practise exist often
within the industry
Representational issues are involved with the re-presentation of facts,
opinions, people and events. The process of medication.

6. Other ethical issues are
• Fairness, contributors and consent
• Accuracy
• Privacy
• harm and offence