Legal &/or ethical issues P2 (g)

Copyright - Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

Copyright gives the creators of some types of media, rights to control how they're used and distributed. Music, book video and software can all stand in the copyright law. 

Limitations enforced by copyright - when you buy software, copyright forbids you from:

• Giving a copy to a friend
• Producing a copy and then selling it
• Using the software on a network (expect if the licence allows it)
• Renting the software without the permission of the copyright holder

Prevention of software piracy - Software companies take make precautions to stop software piracy:

• An agreement between the company that developed the software and the user must be agreed before the software is installed. This is called the licence agreement and covers copyright. 
• Certain pieces of software require a unique licence key to be entered before the installation will continue. 
• Some applications or programs will only run if the media is in the drive. 
• Some applications or programs will only run if a special piece of hardware called a dongle is plugged into the back of the computer. 

Copyright related email I sent to George Ezra:

This is the email I sent to the company that produced George Ezra's 'Listen to the Man' music video. I sent this email to ask for permission to use his track 'Listen to the Man' in my AS Level Media Studies music video. I have done this because Columbia Records has copyright over the track, as they have an exclusive legal right over the track so I must ask if I can use it for my video as I do not own it. Companies use copyright laws so that their ideas are presented in the way that you intended them to, but also so no one else takes credit for your plans/ideas and takes the idea as their own.

Consent Forms

Reece consent form

This is the form that I asked my teacher Mrs Joy to sign, giving permission to let us use the school ICT room and the media room for the locations of our media shoot.

Below are the consent forms I asked the models to sign, allowing me to video them for my music video. As they were U18 at the time, it also required their parents permission to film their child for the video, so I included a part for them to sign as well: