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Law and Ethics

Laws and ethics We are now going to look a range of laws and ethics that link to your writing, photography and double page spread. Firstly you will outline what each one means and give an example. Then you will think about how these laws and ethics will relate to your magazine and the issues you need to think about as a writer. How will these impact on your double page spread and front cover. Fill in the table below with your ideas: -

Copyright What is Copyright? The exclusive and assignable legal right, given to the originator for a fixed number of years, to print, publish, perform, film, or record literary, artistic, or musical material. Give examples of Copyright? Shepard Fairey created the hope obama poster in 2008, and it soon became a symbol for Obamas campaign, in 2009 the original photograph was revealed to have been taken by Mannie Garcia, who demanded compensation for the use of his image, Fairey responded with The defence of fair use. The artist and the AP press came to a private settlement in January 2011, part of which included a split in the profits for the work.

Copyright How would Copyright impact your role as a writer for your double page spread and for your front cover? Copyright can have a massive impact on a writers work as a whole, and it can also limit the material we can use in our article as pictures we may want to use could be protected by copyright, and therefore we cannot use them legally. And in the same way as we cannot use other peoples work, our work is protected by copyright as well, so other people cannot steal my work, or use it for themselves

Defamation How would Defamation impact your role as a writer for your double page spread and for your front cover? Defamation basically only makes it so that we cannot say anything bad about someone that could potentially have a negative impact on that persons reputation, or slander their character, however there is no need to defame someone in my magazine so this should be avoided easily. Such as how currently there is a story about the rapper 21 savage getting deported from America after overstaying their visa, and being sent back to England, so if I were to write about this in my magazine, I would have to be sure the information I was providing about him was true.

Confidentiality What is confidentiality, think about this in your role of a writer? Confidentiality Is important in our magazine if we are writing about someone, or events that have happened where we could possibly use their name, we need to be sure that if we are talking about a sensitive topic, we keep the involved peoples identities private, and if we do use someone's name, make sure that the information we are providing is 100% true Give examples of confidentiality? An example of confidentiality cold be if you were writing a story about a specific person or business, but you are not allowed to divulge any details about the people involved

Confidentiality How would Confidentiality impact your role as a writer for your double page spread and for your front cover? Confidentiality may cause you to have to censor certain things such as names and titles, in order to keep the privacy and information about a person or peoples secret from the public

Representation Explain what representation means for you as a writer? As a writer I have to be aware of representation and how people are represented in my articles through the way I write about them. as representing somebody or a group of people in a bad way could lead to problems for our article or even potentially somebody we wrote about could not be happy with our representation of them and try to sue us for slander Give examples of representation? Making sure that groups of people that we write about, such as soldiers, is fair and respectful to the people we write about, and does not defame or disrespect anyone written about

Representation How would Representation impact your role as a writer for your double page spread and for your front cover? In order to represent people and parties I am writing about in a fair and respectful way, I have to be very careful about how I describe things, and maybe try to get firsthand knowledge about what I am writing about from people directly involved

IPSO What is the IPSO? The Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) is the independent regulator for the newspaper and magazine industry in the UK. They hold newspapers and magazines to account for their actions, protect individual rights, uphold high standards of journalism and help to maintain freedom of expression for the press. Give examples of the IPSO’s work? The IPSO would hold newspapers and magazines accountable for their actions, such as if a magazine made a very offensive story, the IPSO would hold them accountable for it

Defamation - Libel What is Defamation – what does it mean? the action of damaging the good reputation of someone; slander or libel. Basically saying bad things about someone which are not true, and can impact their reputation. Give examples of Defamation? Australian actress Rebel Wilson brought an action against Bauer Media, the publishers of the Women’s Day magazine. The complaint concerned articles published by Women’s Day claiming Wilson lied about her name, age, upbringing and life events.

Defamation - Libel What is Defamation – what does it mean? the action of damaging the good reputation of someone; slander or libel. Basically saying bad things about someone which are not true, and can impact their reputation. Give examples of Defamation? Australian actress Rebel Wilson brought an action against Bauer Media, the publishers of the Women’s Day magazine. The complaint concerned articles published by Women’s Day claiming Wilson lied about her name, age, upbringing and life events.

IPSO How would the work of the IPSO impact your role as a writer for your double page spread and for your front cover? The IPSO makes sure that all newspaper and magazine publications follow the Editors code, so if we breached the code in our magazine, the IPSO could make us publish corrections to our work, even on the front cover