Unit 9 PR9 Regulation

OFCOM OFCOM is a communications regulators

which were it controls the airwaves for the TV and radio sectors and maintains the communications with smaller devises such as phones and laptops and other everyday electrical devises we use in our everyday lives.

ASA ASA or advertising standards authority

regulates dealing with complaints from customers of ads and magazines but they don’t deal with all of them but they are one of the biggest advertising authorities in the UK. In this company they deal with.

CRCA  the CRCA is the company that runs that copyright

laws in the radio industry and if there was a law suit concerning the media business sector then then the CRCA would get involved and investigate the copyright claim made by the media company.

With this they have become very effective in scanning the stations for copyright and they have proven to be very skilled in the field and have become very trust worthy and effective when it comes down to the laws of copyright.

MCPS-PRS These company known as Mechanical-Copyright

Protection Society who specialises in the protection of the data that is made by film directors and producers because when they make the film they have the copyrights and if this film is illegally broadcasted on the web then they will get in touch with the MCPS and legal action will be taken to the forgers of this copyright. They eventually joined with the PRS which stands for Production Rights Society which distributes licence fees for music artists and creators and with this partnership they have been very effective in stopping the forgery and illegal distribution of copyright music.