P3 Legal or ethical issues identified and resolved

Legal and ethical issues identified:

Copyright - One of the main types of intellectual property - others include designs, patents and trademarks. Intellectual property allows a person to own things they create in the same way as something physical can be owned. It is the right to prevent others copying or reproducing someone's work.

This is very important in the media industry, especially when creating short films as it is very easy to copy a film that has already been made and then admit that it is your own work even if it isn't.

Copyright is a big issue the media industry faces. However copyright can be applied on the application of the idea, not the idea itself.

Ethical Issues:

Ethics are the moral principles that define how a group or person acts. However there are some issues in the ethical side of the media industry such as:

- Privacy

- Truth

- Trust

Ethical issues include offensive material such as privacy and copyright, regulatory bodies, representational issues including people, facts, opinions and events.

Accuracy must also be taken into account. For example, in my poster must make people aware of my short film. 

Lastly, and most importantly Privacy is an important part in the media industry. Material should not be broadcasted in which the persons do no approve of or know about.

Royalties

The term royalties is meant through the "Compensation for the use of property, usually copyrighted work, patented inventions, or natural resources, expressed as a percentage of receipts from using the property or as a payment for each unit produced."

A royalty agreement is a section of a contract that the creator of the work discusses terms with the business that seeks to exploit the creation. This could be represented through a simple amount of money for each copy of a book or compact disc sold by the firm. 

MODEL CONSENT FORMS: 

For this shoot, model consent forms needed to be put together to give me permission to use Anna and Sam as models. This is important to have in writing because it is evidence that they agreed to participating in the shoot and for legal reason if anything went wrong, I would not be held responsible for them being at the shoot, as they will have given permission. 

This copy was signed by Anna and her mother. I needed to get Anna's mother's permission to use her in my photo shoot because Anna is under 18. However, Sam is 18, so parental permission was not necessary, however I still needed Sam to sign a consent form.