Legal
content, interpretation and application of laws relating to media, eg Broadcasting Act 1990 (and later amendments), Official Secrets Act 1989, Obscene Publications Act 1959 (and later amendments), Films Act 1985, Video Recordings Act 1984, Race Relations Act 1976 (and later amendments), Human Rights Act 1998, Licensing Act 2003 (and later amendments); privacy law; copyright and intellectual property law; libel law
The Broadcasting act 1990
The Broadcasting act 1990 is a law of the British Parliament to reform the entire structure of british broadcasting. Effects of this law were that the television or radio companies rather than the regulators became the broadcasters. An example of a breach of this law would be if
Official Secrets Act 1989
The Official secrets act 1989 is a law that was passed to prevent people from disclosing information that could be dangerous for the wrong people to know. Basically the rule states that it is illegal to share information related to national security. An examble of breching this law would for instance be if someone recived some secret information from important people and they told anyone else the official secrets law would be breached.
Obscene Publications Act 1959
The Obscene Publications Act 1959 is a law that prevents any obscene material being published where anyone who doesnt want to find it might. This particular law allows a margin for what can be considered artistic. For example if channel 5 showed an xxx rated film at 5:00pm the law would be breached.
Films Act 1985
the Films Act 1985 relates to any laws involving film finance and also defining british films
Video Recordings Act 1984
the Video Recordings Act 1984 law states that all videos that are available have to be classified by the BBFC first
Race Relations Act 1976
The Race Relations Act 1976 was established to prevent racial descrimination on the basis of race, colour, nationality, ethnicity and national origins. This disallows any descriminiation when it comes to employment and such.
Human Rights Act 1998
The Human Rights Act 1998
Code of practice
basically a code of practice is a set of guidelines and rules to be followed by members of some organization or workplace etc; This is not normally enforced by law.
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