Legal and Ethical Regulations

Copyright Act
 The Copyright, Designs and Patents Act is an law established by the British Parliament
that received royal assent on 15th November 1988. It governs copyrights law as amended
from time to time since 1710 under the Statute of Anne. Copyright is an  right subsisting
in certain qualifying subject-matter. Copyright is the exclusive right  given to the creator
of a creative work to reproduce the work, it protects the expression of an idea but not the
idea itself from other parties using the content without permission from the creator for
their own purposes.
 You automatically get copyright protection what you create. Work can be marked with
the copyright symbol (©), your name and the year of creation. Whether you mark the
work or not doesn’t affect the level of protection you have over it.
 It gives the creators recognition and fair economic reward for their work
 Race Relations Act 1976
 The Race Relations Act 1976 is a law established by the British
Parliament to prevent discrimination on the grounds of race. 
This covers include discrimination on the grounds of race, colour,
nationality, ethnic and national origin in the fields of employment, the
provision of goods and services, education and public function.
 This Act incorporates the Race Relations Act 1965 and 1968 and later
amended by the Race Relations Act in 2000 to promote race equality.
 The Act was repealed by the Equality Act 2010, which supersedes and
consolidates previous discrimination law in the UK.
 It allows people of all backgrounds to work together.
 Broadcasting Act 1990
 The Broadcasting Act 1990 was established by the British Parliament to
liberalise and deregulate the British broadcasting industry by promoting
competition like ITV. It came abolished the Independent Broadcasting
Authority
 Broadcasters were not allowed to have more than 20% of television
companies
 An effect of this Act was that, in the letter of the law, the television or
radio companies rather than the regulator became the broadcasters, as
had been the case from 1955-64) era of the Independent Television
Authority when it had fewer regulatory powers than it would later
assume.
 British Board Film Classification Act 1912
 The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC, previously the British Board
of Film Censors), is a non-governmental organisation, founded by the film
industry in 1912 and is responsible for the national classification and
censorship of films exhibited at cinemas, television programmes, trailers,
adverts, public information/campaigning films, menus and bonus content.
 The BBFC was also the designated regulator for the UK age verification scheme
which was abandoned before being implemented.
 The people who work there watch the media and specifically targets the right
audience based on the content. Once rated, only people of a specific age can view
the media.
 It affect media producers as the content is suitable for the target audience.
 Office of Communications.
 The Office of Communications commonly known as Ofcom, is the
government-approved regulatory and competition authority for the
broadcasting, telecommunications, and postal industries of the UK. It’s
headquarters is in London.
 Ofcom licenses all television and radio services in the UK. They have a
Broadcasting Code which are rules that they must follow or risk having
the license revoked. It requires that inappropriate content should 'not be
broadcast between the time frame of 5:30am-9:00pm to prevent children
from viewing it
 It also prevents anyone from being put at discomfort