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Legal Ethical Issues in the Media Industry

+AIMS Identify the different terms; legal and ethical Recognise the main elements of Copyright Name and list the Copyright Act

+What is meant by the terms legal and ethnical?

+In threes… Spend 5 minutes to… Consider what copyright is. Try to list as many areas as you can think of where

copyright may be breached in the media.

+Copyright Protection Copyright is a big issue the media industry faces. Many people talk of

‘copyrighting a song but this isn’t really accurate. Legal protection is advised so that their original material cant be used in somebody else's name. However copyright can only be applied on the application of the idea, not the idea itself.

Copyright is a thing you have have not a thing you dodo. Copyright applies to work that is recorded in some way; rights exist in items such as literary, artistic, musical and dramatic work as well as films, sound recordings and typographical arrangements. It gives the author specific rights in relation to the work, prohibits unauthorised actions, and allows the author to take legal action against instances of infringement or plagiarism.

+COPYRIGHT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdnyrnLXFhg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyDUC1LUXSU

+COPYRIGHT Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke lose Blurred Lines copyright case

11 March 2015 Last updated at 19:47 GMT

Pharrell Williams' and Robin Thicke's 2013 hit Blurred Lines did breach copyright, a court in Los Angeles has ruled.

Jurors decided that the track was too similar to Marvin Gaye's 1977 hit Got To Give It Up and ordered Williams and Thicke to pay $7.3m (£4.8m) in damages.

Speaking outside the court, the lawyer for Marvin Gaye's family revealed outside court that the case had originally been brought against them.

Blurred Lines jury awards Marvin Gaye family $7m

+THE ONLY WAY IS ETHICS… Other than copyright, what other potential issues could this song

raise?

"I'll smack that ass and pull your hair like thatSo I jail watch, hand wave for you to saluteBut you didn't pickNot many women get a [?]But I'm a nice guy, but you get it if you get with me”

Read more at http://www.lyrics.com/blurred-lines-lyrics-robin-thicke.html#kqZgeWGtcyvKeHsO.99

+Activity: In your same threes you must complete the following:

Name the Copyright Act and year? Bullet point the main parts of the act (in a way that you

understand it) Other than music give an example of where copyright has

taken place in the media.

+Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988This act gives the copyright owner

exclusive rights to their work.The owner of the work must give

permission for someone to copy their work; To issue copies of the work to the public To perform their work To broadcast their work To make an adaptation of their work.