Legal and ethical

Legal copyright
The copy right law was passed in 1988, this was created/made so that
other people couldnt copy someone elses work and use it as their own.
This was made to stop people stealing work, whoever makes the work, for
example a band making a new album have it copy righted so that people
cant take the album and use it elsewhere as their own work. In the UK all
work is automatically copy righted, meaning people dont have to file for a
copy right, in other countries, they will have to get a copy right or patent
on their work, for example from the patent office, or you could go online
and file one, this is an example website:
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/intellectual-property-office.
By using an exact copy of someone elses work it will be breaking the
copy right laws (and the law) meaning you could be prosecuted, taken to
court, fined or worse, this can all be avoided by not stealing other peoples
work. The only way you can use other peoples work is if you ask
permission from the owner of the work or agree to pay them royalties, this
is common for people buying the rights to use certain music tracks.

Legal Liable
Liable means to say or write something that isnt true to damage
someone elses reputation, an example of this is someone blogging or
posting a statement taking about someone else trying to insult them, this
is liable because it will damage the other persons reputation. Libel
exposes people to public hatred, damage to his/her business/profession
and can cause the person to be ridiculed.

Legal ASA
ASA or authorising standard authority monitor media channels to see if
anyone is breaking copy right laws, this website has a lot of information
on the ASA: http://www.swimming.org/asa/clubs-and-members/legalinformation/. On this website it talks about legal information, this website
was made to keep everyone informed with current laws and regulations of
the ASA, this includes publishing and ASAs jurisdiction.

Ethical Confidentiality
Confidentiality is all about keeping information away from the public, a
great example of this is at a doctors where there is patient confidentiality,

this can only be broken when the patient is a risk to someone elses
wellbeing, apart from that no one else can know. Basically, confidentiality
is a set of rules that stop certain people getting hold on certain
information just like patient confidentiality.

Ethical privacy
Privacy is very similar to confidentiality, it is keeping information away
from certain people, information like identity etc. The definition of privacy
differs in different countries though, but they all share the common parts
of privacy, theorist Edwin Lawrance Godkin said nothing is better worthy
of legal protection than private life, or, in other words, the right of every
man to keep his affairs to himself, and to decide for himself to what extent
they shall be the subject of public observation and discussion. Meaning
that people should be able to keep their personal life to themselves.

Ethical decency
The minimal decency is a requirement according to the philosophy of
Immanuel Kant, it is basically about the minimum amount of
kindness/decency people should show, for example in a business/company
not allowed to pay under the minimum wage, have to have
confidentiality, not allowed to post liable about staff etc.

Ethical representation
Mainly used in film/game/multimedia, an age rating is an example of this
(12, 15+, 16+ 18+ etc.) These are put in place to stop younger people
accessing inappropriate content, this is because some violent games and
films have had bad press/reputation on them because of a few incidents
(especially around America) where a child has killed their family after
playing a violent video game, therefore there are restrictions in place now
to stop young children accessing content that s deemed inappropriate for
them, however they can always get someone older to buy it for them, this
is the only loop hole in this law.

Ethical race
In modern society, no one is discriminated for their race, unfortunately
there are people that do not think like this, to stop racist people
discriminating others based on their race there is a law in place ethical
race law. An example of this is applying for a job, two people off different

races, and the one with less qualifications gets the job because he/she is a
different race to the other applicant.

Ethical gender
Same as Ethical race, to stop people from being discriminated based on
their gender this law is here to stop that, the same example applies to this
topic, if two people are interviewed but one of them is picked based on
their gender and not work/CV it is discrimination.

Ethical religion
This law is in place to stop people from being discriminated against their
religion, an example of this is partly to do with liable as well, it would be
breaking both ethical and liable laws to post/blog negatively about
someone because of their religious beliefs.

Ethical sexuality
Just like gender, race and religion people used to be discriminated against
for their sexuality, this law stops that, with most of my examples so far, it
is unethical and breaking the law to not employ someone based on their
sexuality.