Understanding the ethical and legal considerations when working in the creative media sector

Understanding the ethical and legal considerations when working in the creative media sector

Laws 

Laws are written approved and enforced by a particular government.

Ethics 

Ethics are rules of conducts, responsibility. if you break an ethical code yo may be forced to act with ethical disapproval from your peers or professional body.

Privacy law 

privacy law is a regulation that protects a person right to be left alone

people are allowed to lead there life without being in the public eye

libel law 

Libel law is to print something which is not true or may harm that person reputation and may bring hate or scam towards them.

It must be a statement which claims to be fact and its not clearly identified as an opinion. 

for an example a magazine can not right anything they want, they have to make it look and sound like a fact not an opinion. for another example the righter of the magazine article can not express her/his own feelings as this is an opinion not a fact. 

Intellectual property 

Intellectual property is something that is unique to you if physically created i.e. an idea is not your intellectual property but the words you write are.

copyright is a type of intellectual law that protects your work

By knowing you rights and having the right type of protection you can stop people steeling or copying

• the name of the product or brand 
• your inventions 
• the design or look of the product 
• things you write, make or produce