Legal Issues Homework

TV Production
Community

Legal Issues that the people behind Community would need to consider would be Intellectual Property, as the TV Show refers to a lot of creative work that they have no rights to, so they would need to gain permission from the people who created these works originally.

Social Media Campaign:

This campaign advertises a sandwhich company called "Wendy's" and at the same time advertises a competition. The competition states that there is a chance to win $1000 by tweein a photo of a sandwhich. Legal issues this campaign would need to consider would be libel issues, which means they would need to make sure the campaign does not incorporate anything which isn't true in order to attract audiences.

Digital Animation
Rick and Morty

Legal Issues Rick and Morty should consider, are Copright issues, since the whole series uses characters which are based on the two main characters in back to the future, (Rick being based on Doc, and Morty being based on Marty). They would have had to gain permission to use these characters and spoof parts of Back to the Future, and it is very likely that they have to either pay a fee or a percentage of their profit to the company that holds the rights to the characters in back to the future.

Radio Production
A bit of Fry and Laurie

Graphic novel
Deadpool: Unillustrated

Legal Issues that would need to be considered in this graphic novel would be copyright issues, since this graphics novel includes the character, Sherlock Holmes. In order for Marvel to get permission to include Sherlock, they would have needed to gain permission from the people who own the rights to Sherlock Holmes.

Digital Photographic Product

If this picture was for commercial use, the person who took the photo would need to gain permission from the people who own the empire state building.

Legal Issuess Revision

Freedom of Information act 2000

Organisations (Public Sector Organisations) such as the NHS, the Police, State Schools, Council are obliged to publish and make information available to the public. If they do not make such information available, a fine could be issued. Or they could be given an extension to make the required information available (usually a 30 day period). This is called a "Grace Period"

Data Protection Act 1998
Protecting Personal data, data needs to be encrypted, and the companies managing such data are not allowed to share the data without permission. If details are stored, they must be kept secure, if they are going to be published, the person's data should have been asked.

Libel
The writing of something that isn't true that is damaging to someone's reputation. Defamation. (Newspaper and magazine articles, social media also)

Slander
Similar too Libel, except instead of the written word, involves the spoken word (Interviews, the news)

Copyright, designs and patents act 1988
Gives copyright to someone copyright and ownership to someone or an organisation who has created something. (Media products include Music, Logos/Trademarks and Films/Books.) Similar to intellectual property, however different... You have ownership & control, but only for as long you own it.

Intellectual Property
If you create something in a company, you don't own it the company does.

If you want to manipulate someone's work, you would need to ask the person who created the product for their permission, you could gain their permission through sending an email, arranging a meeting or giving them a phone call.

 

Legal Issues Presentation

LO1: Introduction booklet

LO2: Legal Issues

What does crowd funding mean?

Crowd funding is when you get a group of people to give you money for a project, and in return you give them something which will make them want to fund your project. You can give money via donations. Correct

State two advantages for an independent project.

You don’t have to give your profit to other companies.

You have complete control on your project.

Can get donations for any project.
Funding goes straight towards project.
Could use social media as a form of adverting (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram)

State two disadvantages for an independent project.

No other companies help you promote the project.

You are likely to have a low budget.

Cannot fund project if target not met.

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Legal Issues:
There are certain rules that companies need to abide by in order not to encounter prosecution. These rules are stated by the government.

Permission to do things, depending on the production.
Consequences are prosecution.

In order to film people or use pictures of them you need them to sign a consent and release form.

In order to use certain locations you would need the owner to sign a consent and release form.

Because of health and safety issues, in all procutions, a risk assessment is neeeded, for all personal that are going to be working on the production.

Freedom of information

What it means: The freedom information act 2000 provides access to public information held by public authorities, public authorites are obliged to publish information, members of the public or aloud to request information from them.

Three reasons why it is important: It allows poeple to "check up on" companies, to make sure they arn't doing anything wrong.

Consequences of not adhering to this law: The ICO deals with complaints, the complaints allow you to reconsider any acusations and put right the mistake without taking formal action.

An example of where this lefal issue was breached: In 2010 the law was breached by not saying how many days two consultants worked or what each was paid.

How the law effects the pre-production of a media product:

Any information or assets that could be used for a production can be obtained from these authorites, which makes these assets more easy to access.


(Who are ICO?)

Interlectiul Property Rights

What it means: If you have interllectual property rights to something you have made, means that no-one can use it without your permission. (Trademarks)

Three reasons why it is important: Supports high paying jobs worldwide, drives econimic growth and competiveness and helps consumers make an educated choice about the safety and reliability of their purchases.

Consequences of not adhering to this law: If someone uses someone elses inerlectual property without permission, then it has become a case of copyright infringment, and prosecution may be involved.

An example of where this lefal issue was breached: Amazon was granted a patent for 1-click technology on September 28, 1999 also known as one-click buying, allows customers to make an online purchase iin a single click, without having to manually input billing and shipping information, the have been several dispute... (RESEARCH) 

How the law effects the pre-production of a media product:
People are paid fairly for the work they have created.


Liable and Slander What it means: (Liable) The act/crime of making a written statement that isn't truthful and is potentially damaging to a person's reputation. (Slander) Words that are spoken.

Three reasons why it is important: It protects people from prosecution, it avoids having information that isn't true broadcasted to impressionable audience, it also helps avoid large financial loss.

Consequences of not adhering to this law: Written formal apology.

An example of where this legal issue was breached: A journalist insinuated false accusations against someone, as a consequence she had to give money to a charity of is choice, and had to write a written formal apology. 

How the law effects the pre-production of a media product:

Copyrights designs and patents act 1998

What it means:

Three reasons why it is important: It is important that something you have made does not contain anything copyrighted, and if you do you need to gain permission from that company, this will cost a fee.

Consequences of not adhering to this law: Could be fined 50,000, or be given a sentecne of up to 10 years. The consequences dpend on the the commercial value of the idea, and on the profits that may have been made.

An example of where this lefal issue was breached: 1997 Puff Daddy sampled The polives Every Breath You Take, he had to pay Sting £2000 a day as Sting gets 100% of the writing royalites.

How the law effects the pre-production of a media product:



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Three reasons why it is important:

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LO1: Legal Issues Presentation

Data Protection Act

1. Definition of what it means

The Data Protection Act is what controls how people's personal information is used by the government, orgonisations and businesses. Anyone that is responsable or manages people's data must follow a strict set of rules. These rules are called "Data Protection Principles".

These rules make sure that data is:
-safe and secure
-accurate
-stored no longer than needed
-used lawfully and fairly
-used in a way which isn't excessive
-not transferred outside of the Europian Economic Area with out adequate protection.
-used in a limited way, only for specifically stated purposes
-handled according to people's data protection acts.

There is even stronger protection for people's sensetive information. (Ethnic backgrounds, Religious beliefs, sexual health...)

Information found at: https://www.gov.uk/data-protection/the-data-protection-act

2. Three reasons why it is important
3. What are the consequences of not adhering to this law?
4. Finda an example of where this legal issue was breached.

In April 2011, Sony was fined 250k, for not having good enough security on their stored data. This allowed criminal hackers to break into is online store and expose loads personal information such as adresses, dates of birth and creit card information.

Commissioner David Smith said that if you are handeling so many payment card and login details, then keeping all that personal data should have been a priority.

Mr Smith also said that Sony was "a business that should have known better," and also said that the breach was one of the most serious he'd ever come across.

Information found at: http://www.thedrum.com/news/2013/01/24/sony-fined-250k-over-serious-data-protection-act-breach

5. How does this law effect pre-production of a media product? Give examples

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