unit 8: Understanding the television and film industry.

Legal and ethical obligations in the media industry. 

When it comes to working in the media industry there are many do's and don'ts that you should know about. And i am going to let you know about some of the things that are so important that you must know and need to remember. And that is the legal obligations that are included in the media industry. This important because you have to look at it and make sure you follow the legal obligations that you have to follow otherwise i can have extreme consequences and backfire. 

Here are some examples of  the legal obligations are:

Contracts:

A contract is either a spoken or written agreement. Contracts are more popular when it comes to employment, sales or tenancy, that is intended to be enforced by law. It is important to have contracts in the media industry because when it comes to employing someone 

A contract is a voluntary arrangement between two or more people that is binding by law as a legal agreement. Contracts are a branch of the law of obligations in jurisdiction of civil law traditions. Contract law concerns the rights and duties that arises from agreements. I got this information from Wikipedia, which is a well know website to help you find out facts and information. Contracts also help to keep things organized in the work place. A contracts does this by making sure that not one employees goes beyond what there contract says. For example say an employee is signed to work 36 hours a week and there employer asks them to work another shift it is there legal obligation to say no or yes. It is totally up to the employee and there decision should not have any impact on there job.


A confidential agreement, which is also known as non-disclosure agreement or NDA, is simply a contract between two or more parties where the subject of the agreement is a promise that information conveyed will be maintained in secrecy. These agreements can be mutual agreements, which is were both party's are obliged to maintain secrecy, or they can be unilateral agreements, where only the receiving party becomes obligated to maintain security. I found this information from a website called http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2008/01/03/what-is-confidentiality-agreement/id=31/ If you click on the link you will go straight to the website were I found all my information from.

Businesses often partner with other companies to accomplish strategic objectives, and those relationships sometimes include an exclusivity agreement- that is, an agreement to deal with each other exclusively with respect to a particular aspect of their business. A famous exclusively agreement exists between apple and AT&p regarding the distribution of the iPhone. closer to home, many real estate listens agreements give the agent the exclusive right to sell the listed property. A lot of the time Exclusive agreements can strengthen certain business relationships to the exclusion of others. I found this information from http://www.legalbegal.com/5077053-exclusivity-agreement.htrml If you can click on this link you can have a look at the website yourself.   

Ethical:

When it comes to ethics in the business world is a form of applied ethics or professional ethics that examines ethical principles and moral or ethical problems that are arise in a business environment. It will apply to all aspects of business conduct and is relevant to the conduct of individuals and entire organization. These ethics originate from individuals, organizational statements or from the legal system.

Business ethics refers to contemporary organizational standards, principles, sets of values and norms that govern the actions and behaviour of an individual in the  business organization. Business ethics has normative and descriptive dimensions. As a corporate practice and a career specialization, the field is primarily normative. I got both pieces of information from the internet from a popular web page called Wikipedia.

 

Code of conducts are a set of rules that outline the social norms and rules and responsibility's of, or proper practices for, an individual, party or organization. Related concepts include ethical, honor, moral codes and religious laws. in its 2007 international good practice guidance, "Defining an Effective code of conduct for organizations", the international federation of accountants provided the following working definition: "principles, values, standards, or rules of behaviour that guides the decisions, procedures and systems of an organization in a way that contributes to the welfare of its key stakeholders, and respects the right of all constituents affected by its operations". http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/code_of_conduct if you go onto this link you will find the source of my information and were I have found my information from.

 

Policies and principles , rules, and guidelines formulated or adopted by an organization to reach its long-term goals and typically published in a booklet or other form that is widely accessible. Policies and procedures are designed to influence and determine all major decisions and actions, and all activity's take place within the boundary's set by them. Procedures are the specific methods employed to express policies in action in day-to-day operations of the organization. together, policies and procedures ensure that a point of view held by the governing body if an organization is translated into steps that result in an outcome compatible with that view

 http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/policies-and-procedures.html if you go onto this link you can look at were I have found all my information out about policies and procedures.

 

The impact of current and emerging social and expectations on organisational leadership is the way businesses can be done is now changing. It is important yo make sure that they know about how the new ways of conducting and are aware of the changes that are taking place and are impacting the business. Learning about these changes will help them to know more about what has to be done in order to make their business a success and to ensure that it is growing. www.researchomatic.com/impact-of-current-and-emerging-social-conserns-and-expectations-on-organisational-leadership-39728.html#buytopicstep this is the link to were I found the information that I have stated here.  

 

Representation is the actions of speaking or acting on behalf of someone or the state of being represented, or the description or portrayal of something in a particular way.  

 

 

 Legal

Privacy laws refers to the laws that deal with the regulation, storage, and use of personal information about individuals, which can be collected by governments and other public as well as private organizations. Privacy laws are considered in the context of an individual's privacy rights or within expectations of privacy. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/privacy_law

Libel is a method of defamation expressed by print, writing, pictures, signed, effigies, or any communication embodied In physical form that is injurious to a person's reputation, exposes a person to public hatred, contempt or ridicule, or injures a person in his/her business or profession. http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/libel

Intellectual property law deals with the rules for securing and enforcing legal rights to inventions, designs, and artistic works. just as the law protects ownership of personal property and real estate, so too does it protect the exclusive control of intangible assets. http://www.hg.org/intell.html . And Copyright is the exclusive and assignable legal right, given to the originator for a fixed number of years, to print, publish, preform, film or even record literary, artistic, or musical material. And I found this information from the definition of copyright when typing in copyright in in google.

The obscene publications act 1959 is an act of parliament of the united kingdom parliament that significantly reforms the law related to obscenity in England and Wales. Prior to the passage of the Act, the law on publishing obscene materials was governed by the common law case of R v Hicklin, which had no exceptions for artistic merit or the public good. During the 1950s, the society of authors formed a committee to recommend reform of the existing law, submission a draft bill to the home office in February 1955. After several failed attempted to push a bill through parliament, a committee finally succeeded in created a viable bill, which was introduced to parliament by Roy Jenkins and given the Royal asset on 29 July 1959, coming into force on 29 August 1959 as the Obscene Publications act 1959. With the committee consisting of both censors and reformers, the actual reform of the law was limited, with several extensions to police powers included in the final version. http://en.m.wikipidia.org/wiki/obscene_publications_act_1959