Legal & Ethical Considerations

When creating/making something you have to be aware and think about the legal and ethical issues in media. One of the biggest issues is copyright. And what copyright is, is when someone copy´s an idea or the whole thing its self like a video and claims it as their own, benefiting from it. To help with this legal protection is advised so that people cant steal owners original material. One thing to take note of though is that copyright can only be used on the outcome or applications not the idea its self.

Health and safety is also a legal issue as things like risk assessment forms need to done especially when planing on filming somewhere. Employer liability insurance exists to help with diseases or injury's that could happen in the work place. Employer rights tie into this as employees have the right to a safe work place, training time, sick pay and loads more of different things.

Businesses  and company's use things like trademarks to define things and makes their businesses stand out so people notice and can tell what company it is.

You can not discriminate against anyone based on sexuality, race, sex or believes. This also falls under the equal opportunity´s act and what this is, is that you cant be singled out or not to participate in something, every one has to be treated like an equal with equal right and opportunity´s.
When company's are creating something or have an idea confidentiality is a key component that stops other company's from stealing or taking credit from the original owners work. Most commonly employers will be needed to sign a confidentiality agreement form when working on things to stop them from sharing ideas or plans that businesses don´t want getting out. Ethics. What ethics are, are basically the thing that stops people usually reporters from be biased. They must not be biased when doing a story and cant lead it or have people say stuff that would make it one sided. Its best if things are approached with a open mind and keep it mutual. When in media privacy must be taken into account, even more when filming or doing an interview, people like producers and reporters must make sure that they are not interfering, bothering or being to intrusive with people´s lives or opinions. Material is also not allowed to be released that people don´t approve of. By this I mean if an interviewee said something they don´t like or didn't mean to.