Legal Issues
Data protection act - Employees protection must be ensured and secured for the product Copyright - The business need to get claims on the media product being produced ASA - Regulating the products and managing what can be used and what cannot Fact checking - Ensuring that all material within the products are correct for the produced media Freedom of information act - Having the freedom and access to information. This would be relevant to people working in news Intellectual property act - Protects products from any copying Libel - When you take a company to court over something they haven't done. Freedom of information act - The public has the right to access information that is held by public sector organisations. During the research stage of any media product, such as in the news industry, access to this data can be requested from a variety of sources including public sector organisations using the act. Intellectual property act - If you have ...