Revision of legal issues

Freedom of information act

• Public have the right to access/ask for information from public sector organisations (NHS,goverment,police,mod)
• Public sector organisations are funded by the public/taxes so the public have the right to access their information.
• In pre-production you need to consider this if you are making documentaries/newpaper on the public service organisations because you need to access data to include.
• This can be harmful if people manipulate this data to use in the wrong way
• Concequences of not following the act:                                                                                    ICO give 30 days to amend the problem.                                                                                    Possible fine.

Copyright, designs and patents act 1988

• Recognise/ownership for work you have created:

1. Logo
2. Songs
3. Music
4. Posters
5. Book

• If you want to use someone else's intellectual property you have to ask permission
• There is a time period in which you have legal ownership of a product (time frame)
• if you invent/make something as part of a company, the company will have ownership of it.

How do you seek permission?

1. Email
2. Telephone
3. Letter

Data Protection act:

• Protection of sensitive data (passwords,account details "E commers", medical records, contact info,personal details)
• Encryption needs to be used to protect this data.
• People holding sensitive data are not aloud to share to a third party unless you agree/give concent.
• concequences of breaching: fines, possible prosecution

Libel and Slander:

• Libel- a written statement which could ruins someones reputation, false information.
• Slander- incudes hurtful/offensive language. Spoken statement  which can ruin a persons reputation
• pre-production effected by libel: newspaper,book,magazine
• pre-production effected by Slander: news, video (social media),radio.