The ethical and legal constraints within the media sector
I am going to explain the legal and ethical constraints within the media sector.
Copyright is protected by the law, the intellectual and economic rights of creators and publishers of literary, dramatic, artistic, musical, audiovisual and electronic works. It’s protected by the law because people cannot copy any work unless they ask for permission from the copyright holder. A copy write is when you copy a work which is not yours, people cannot copy any work unless they ask for permission from the copyright holder. Intellectual is when you create things from your own creation. Economic right is something you make money of. Copy right law were put in place in different stages, but overall they were placed in Act 1988 this is when the name of the copy right owners work was first published, the most useful convention for indicating that a work is under copy right, the year they created the symbol© was the year 1988.
These laws were made by the houses of parliament, because they decide to choose the rights that humans should have and what rights they should not have. They made this copy right law because works cannot be used or reproduced without permission of the copy right holder. You should create your own profit financially from your own creation not other peoples work.
The cost of copy righting your work depends on the person that is selling it there isn’t a specific price, because you are the copy right holder you should deicide how much you want to sell your work for because you are the person who produced the work from your own intelligence. The copy right owner have special rights to their own work, they have their own right on what they want to do with their own works such as: Broadcasting their work and showing or giving an idea to people.
These copy right laws protect the human from abusing others or coping their works and pretending its their own work from their own conception when its not. If their isn’t any copyright laws their could be a major of legal problems such as; A TV news report quoting a police officer about a drunk driver who caused a fatal accident, a mistake that associated the wrong name or home address with criminal wrongdoing, a photo from a web page used in a student newspaper, TV cameraman who accompanies the police into a home during a drug raid, Record bought at a local store that's used as background music for a commercial etc.
These copy right laws protect the human from abusing others or coping their works and pretending its their own work from their own conception when its not. If their isn’t any copyright laws their could be a major of legal problems such as; A TV news report quoting a police officer about a drunk driver who caused a fatal accident, a mistake that associated the wrong name or home address with criminal wrongdoing, a photo from a web page used in a student newspaper, TV cameraman who accompanies the police into a home during a drug raid, Record bought at a local store that's used as background music for a commercial etc.
Television industry is protected by Ofcom which is the UK’s regulator. They make sure that people in the UK get the best from their communication services and are protected from sharp practices and tricks. They regulate TV and Radio sector, fixed line and telecoms and mobiles. The Ofcom operates under the communications act 2003, which states that Ofcom’s universal duties should be to further the interests of citizens and of customers.
TV broadcasters can be broken into at least two different groups;
Public service broadcasters which are funded in the whole or in part through public money. This is from money received directly from the government or as in the UK, it can be received through a license fee, the license fee is usually protect by the law and set by government because its required for any household which contains equipment that are used to receive TV signal.
Commercial TV is financed by national and local spot advertising or sponsorship, and run a public company with shareholders. The commercial broadcasters is under pressure to make the most of its audience to give good reason for its ad rates
