Media Industries

ASA
Full company name : Advertising Standards Authority
Who do they regulate? Which areas of the media? The ASA are the UK’s independent regulator, whom regulates in advertising across most media, such as Television, Sale Promotion, Internet, ect.
Are the Regulatory Or Self-Regulatory? The Asa is Self-Regulatory, as they are a company which made themselves making the rule for advertising and what can be shown to what audiences.

NUJ
Full Company Name: National Union of Journalism.
Who do they regulate? Which areas of the media? Members work across the entire industry – as staffers and freelances, writers and reporters, editors and sub-editors, photographers and illustrators. Members work in broadcasting, newspapers, magazines, books, in public relations and in a variety of new media. We are professionals who are proud of the work that we do. Founded in 1907, the NUJ is among the biggest and best-established journalists' unions in the world, with 38,000 members.
Are the Regulatory Or Self-Regulatory? They are a self-regulatory company, most people think it worked best this way as they offer commitment, free expert legal advice and a voice for the working people in the media insuring they get paid as much as they should be.
PCC
Full company Name: Press Complaints Commission
Who do they regulate? Which areas of the media? The Press Complaints Commission is an independent body which deals with complaints from members of the public about the editorial content of newspapers and magazines.
Are they Regulatory OR Self-Regulatory? The PCC is a self regulatory body.
Criminal Law And Civil Law- The difference? The different between the two is that, Criminal law is a crime against the justice system, where someone has committed a crime which is considered to be wrong, and will then be justice system, if found guilty for the crime in question they will have to serve a prison sentence in the appropriate way, where as Civil Law is there is a disagreement between two individuals, companies or organisation, where something such as one suing the other will that place at the civil court, and will be settled by one paying the other.
Health and safety, what health and safety checks would you make before a shoot?
Studio-
· Trap down all lose corner of the backdrop.
· Make sure all wire are away from photo area.
· Make sure the lighting is properly set up.
· Make sure background is set up right.
Location
· Make sure location is safe.
· Find any tripping hazards and warn talent.
· If any prop and/or equipment are heavy get someone to help.
Copyright, What is copyright? What can you actually copyright and How does this protect you as the author of text or images?
Copyright is where someone has the right to claim their work for their own, and stop it being used by other people unfairly, such as a video on the internet is easily copied, however if it is copyrighted then they can sue people for using it. You can copy right pretty much anything in the media, photos, writing, videos ect, this is to insure the rightful person gets the credit for it. For an author this protect them by is their work is uploaded to the internet by someone else they have to put the name of the original author by it, there for showing their work more, if they don’t do this it a breach of the copyright.
Libel Law- What is defamation? What is Libel What is Slander?
· DefamationA false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions
· LibelThe defamation of a person's reputation, in writing or by images
· SlanderWhere words falsely spoken that damage the reputation of another
Data Protection- What is the Data Protection Act?The Data Protection Act is a United Kingdom Act of Parliament which defines UK law on the processing of data on identifiable living people. It is the main piece of legislation that governs the protection of personal data in the UK.