Monday, 26 September 2016

Legal Issues Revision

Freedom of information Act
  • organisations - public sector (eg: NHS, Police, Schools) have an obligation to publish/ make available information about what they are doing.
  • Pre production - News,
  • Conseqences for not having infromation available - Fines, given tine period to get and publish the information
Data Protection Act
  • Protects personal data eg: Bank details, address, ethnicity/ religious beliefs, health records
  • Organisations have to encrypt, not alowed to be shared,
  • Consequences - Sued, fine, prosecuted.
  • Pre Production - Client data, audiance personal information eg transactions, e - commerce, surveys, questionaires
Liable
  • Deformation, written content that is untrue or damaging to a persons repertation
  • Magazines, nespapers, online content (Print)
Slander
  • Liable but spoken oposed to written
  • Interview, chat show, news, (Video)
Copyright, designs and patents 1988
  • gives copyright to someone or organisaion who has created something.
  • Music, logos/trademarks, books, films
  • Protects someones work
  • Rights to controll how it is used by others, owership length changes, counts if in group too.
  • Permission needed for reuse            contact via: email, letter, meeting, phone call,
Intellectual property
  • Also protects someones work.
  • If you create something as part of a company the organisation has the interlectual property.



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