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The rights cover: broadcast and public performance, copying, adapting, issuing, renting and
lending copies to the public.
This means it is not a criminal offence to break the law, which could result in a fine or jail
sentence.
Instead, the person who owns the copyright has to sue the person they believe has broken
the law. The case is then heard in a civil court and if the person is found guilty of breaking
copyright law then they will have to pay damages to the owner of the copyright. The amount
of damages is set by the court.
Duration of copyright
For literary, dramatic, musical or artistic works: 70 years from the end of the calendar
year in which the last remaining author of the work dies.
If the author is unknown, copyright will last for 70 years from end of the calendar year in
which the work was created, although if it is made available to the public during that time, by
publication, authorised performance, broadcast, exhibition etc., then the duration will be 70
years from the end of the year that the work was first made available.
Sound Recordings: 50 years from the end of the calendar year in which the work was
created or, if the work is released within that time, 70 years from the end of the calendar
year in which the work was first released.
Films: 70 years from the end of the calendar year in which the last principal director, author
or composer dies.
If the work is of unknown authorship: 70 years from end of the calendar year of creation, or if
made available to the public in that time, 70 years from the end of the year the film was first
made available.
Typographical arrangement of published editions: 25 years from the end of the calendar
year in which the work was first published.
Broadcasts and cable programmes: 50 years from the end of the calendar year in which
the broadcast was made.
Equality Act 2010
This law legally protects people from discrimination in the workplace and in wider society.
It is against the law to discriminate against anyone because of:
Ø Age
Ø Being or becoming a transsexual person
Ø Being married or in a civil partnership
Ø Being pregnant or on maternity leave
Ø Disability
Ø Race including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin
Ø Religion/belief or lack of religion/belief
Ø Sex
Ø Sexual orientation
Application:
How this applies to a Magazine production in general – e.g. what producers must do to avoid
breaking the law
They must ensure that they don’t discriminate against anyone of a particular
race/gender/sexuality.
How you will specifically avoid breaking this law – what exactly will you avoid and how?
I will ensure that try I use models of different genders and ages and sexualities
however I will pick the person most suited for the magazine
Intellectual property
What intellectual property is?
Having the right type of intellectual property protection helps you to stop people stealing or
copying:
Ø the names of your products or brands
Ø your inventions
Ø the design or look of your products
Ø things you write, make or produce
Copyright, patents, designs and trademarks are all types of intellectual property protection.
You get some types of protection automatically, others you have to apply for.
If you believe anyone has stolen or copied your property you would sue them in civil court.
Types of protection
The type of protection you can get depends on what you’ve created. You get some types of
protection automatically, others you have to apply for.
Automatic protection
Application:
How this applies to a magazine production in general:
This applies to magazine producers as they must ensure they don’t use already
existing materials that weren’t created solely by them.
How you will specifically avoid breaking this law – what exactly will you avoid and how?
I will avoid breaking this law by using all my own photos and also conducting my own
interviews this will not break the law as all of my work will be made solely by me.
In this Act ‘article’ means any description of article containing or embodying matter to be
read or looked at or both, any sound record and any film or other record of a picture or
pictures.
How you will specifically avoid breaking this law – what exactly will you avoid and how?
I will ensure that I don’t use vulgar language in my article which could be seem to
cause harm and offence to a young audience.
Trespass
This is a civil law.
Trespass to land consists of any unjustifiable intrusion by a person upon the land in
possession of another.
Civil trespass is actionable in the courts.
Application:
How this applies to a music video production in general – e.g. what producers must do to
avoid breaking the law
Ensure that they only use locations that they are permitted to conduct photoshoots
on.
How you will specifically avoid breaking this law – what exactly will you avoid and how?
I will ensure to only conduct my photoshoots in areas to which I have permission to
or are available for public access.
Privacy
The introduction of the Human Rights Act 1998 incorporated into English law the European
Convention on Human Rights.
Article 8.1 of the ECHR provides an explicit right to respect for a private life:
Article 8 protects your right to respect for your private life, your family life, your home and
your correspondence (letters, telephone calls and emails, for example).
Privacy Law is a law which deals with the use of people’s personal information and making
sure they aren't intruded upon. These laws make sure people can't have their information
wrongly used without permission.
Anyone who believes their right has been broken can make a civil claim in the courts against
those they believe have invaded their privacy.
When applying the legal principles the court will balance the claimant's right to privacy
against the right to freedom of expression.
If the claimant is proved to be correct this could result in an injunction banning publication of
information; damages; and return or destruction of the material gained from the intrusion.
Application:
How this applies to a Magazine production in general – e.g. what producers must do to avoid
breaking the law
Producers must ensure that they apply for intellectual property rights to avoid their
work being stolen.
How you will specifically avoid breaking this law – what exactly will you avoid and how?
I will ensure that nobody uses the same ideas as me and tries to claim them as their
own.
The Act changed existing criteria for a successful claim, by requiring claimants to show
actual or probable serious harm (which, in the case of for-profit bodies, is restricted to
serious financial loss), before suing for defamation in England or Wales.
It also enhanced existing defences, by introducing a defence for website operators hosting
user-generated content (provided they comply with a procedure to enable the complainant to
resolve disputes directly with the author of the material concerned or otherwise remove it),
and introducing new statutory defences of truth, honest opinion, and "publication on a matter
of public interest“.
LIBEL
A written, published false statement that is damaging to a person's reputation.
SLANDER
Making a false spoken statement damaging to a person's reputation.
Defamation is a civil law and so you would need to sue someone who you believe has
damaged your reputation.
Application:
How this applies to a Magazine production in general – e.g. what producers must do to avoid
breaking the law
They must ensure everything wrote about the subject of the article is true so they
aren’t breaking the law.
How you will specifically avoid breaking this law – what exactly will you avoid and how?
I will ensure that everything that I write about the person in my feature is true and isn’t
made up so I am not committing the offence of Libel.
Ethical Constraints
Application:
How this applies to a Magazine production in general – e.g. what producers must do to avoid
crossing the ethical line? Producers must ensure that they don’t discriminate against a
certain group of people.
How you will specifically avoid crossing any ethical lines – what exactly will you avoid and
how?
I will ensure that I don’t use anything that shows a certain group of people in a
negative light including the portrayal of people in both my photographs and also in
my written up article.
Application:
How this applies to a Magazine production in general – e.g. what producers must do to avoid
crossing the ethical line? Producers must ensure that they don’t use any content that is
offensive or harmful.
How you will specifically avoid crossing any ethical lines – what exactly will you avoid and
how?
I will ensure that all the content I use isn’t harmful, offensive or explicit in any way
such as vulgar language in my article or show any explicit images in my magazine
such as nudity or violence.
Contingency Plans
Problem Solution
Photograph files get lost or corrupted Backup the files in multiple places on
the computer.