Privacy Law

Laws are written approved and enforced by a particular government if you brake a law you could face police investigations court appearance and fine.

Ethic Rules of conduct responsibly (Not the Law) if you break an ethical code you could be forced to act with ethical disapproval from your peers or professional body

Privacy Law  (Human Rights) - This is a regulation that protects a persons right to be left alone.

Why is it important for producers to understand the legal considerations when working in the creative sectors?

Well it's important because the law is a very serious thing, if we didn't have them then people would do whatever they wanted and easily get away with it. In the creative sectors there are a lot of different legal things for an example copyright, if you use anyone's song for example someone famous and used it for something that you had made then yes that would e copyrighted and then you wouldn't be able to show anyone whatever you had done/made. Plus there is also many other things that could be used in the wrong way but I will get into that soon.

Libel Law - This is basically a method of defamation expressed by print, writing, pictures, signs, effigies or even any communication embodied in physical form that is injurious to a person's reputation, exposes a person to public hatred, contempt or ridicule, or injures a person in his/her business or profession.

My example of this is going to be when Robin Williams sued his celebrity look alike for pretending to be the real Robin Williams. When he done this it caused a lot of damage to Robin Williams reputation.

Privacy Law - Privacy Law actually refers to the laws that deal with the regulation of personal information about individuals which can be collected by the government and other public as well as private Organizations and its storage and use. Sachsgate: Fawlty Towes actor still disgusted about the situation with Russell Brand and Johnathan Ross insulting him and his daughter. 

Obscene Publication Act 1959 (and later amendments) - This is an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom Parliament that significantly reformed the law related to obscenity in England and Wales. Their acts are devided into 5 different sections, the 5th section is covering the extent of the act and its commencement date.

• Section 1 - This covers the test to determine if something is obscene, an article is taken to be obscene if the entierere article "is,if" taken as a whole, such as to tend to depraved and corrupt people who are most likely, having regard to all relevant circumstances, to read, see or hear the matter contained or embodied in it. If you want to read more then just go to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obscene_Publications_Act_1959. 
• Section 2 - This covers the actual prohibition of publishing 'obscene material'. It creates a new "publishing an obscene article" that replaces the common law misdemeanour of "obscene libel" that was previously the crime. Anyone can be found guilty of this regardless of if it was done for profit or not. Where the article is a film, the consent of the Director of Public Prosecutions is required before a prosecution can commence. Again if you want to read more head over to the link above. 
• Powers of search and seizure are actually covered by section 3, which also repealed the Obscene Publications Act 1857. This section allows a Justice of the Peace, if satisfied that there are reasonable grounds to actually believe obscene Publications are kept on certain premises for profit, to issue a warrant for that location. The warrant allows a police officer to enter the  premises, to search them and also remove any suspect publications; if such publications are found, the officer can also take a record relating to the business trade. The articles must then be brought before a magistrate and either forfeited by the owners or returned. The owner, author or publisher of the articles, or the person from whom they were seized, may appear before the magistrate to argue why they should not be forfeited.
• Section 4 creates the defence of public good, which applies both to prosecutions for publication of obscene materials and to the forfeiture proceedings that is described in section 3. This actually allows for a valid defence if the defendant can show that the publication of the materials was justifiable as for the "Public Good", which is defined as " in the interests of science, literature, art or learning, or of other objects or general concern. Experts and their testimony are admissible for determining the value of such publications. This section was treated very strictly by the trail judges, but the attitude was reversed after the 1976 Trial of the book "Inside Linda Lovelace" where the jury found the publisher not guilty despite the judge saying that "if it isnt obscene, the members of the jury, you may think that nothing is obscene". Then three years later the " Williams Committee " suggested that restrictions on written pornography be lifted and also these restrictions have been largely abandoned. .

Copyright and Intellectual Property Law - Copyright is a type of intellectual; law that protects your work. The names of your product or brands, things you write, make or produce. Your inventions, the design or look of your products, by knowing your rights and having the right type of protection you can stop people stealing or copying Intellectual property is something that is unique to you if physically created. i.e. and idea is not your intellectual property but the words you write.

Official Secrets Act 1989 - This is an act of the parliament of the United Kingdom that repeals and also replaces section 2 of the Official Secrets Act 1911, by removing the public interest defence that are created by that section. There are 16 different sections that they do and this is what they are: 

• Section 1 - Security and Intelligence.
• Section 2 - Defence.
• Section 3 - International Relations.
• Section 4 - Crime and Special Investigation powers.
• Section 5 - Information resulting from unauthorized disclosures or entrusted in confidence.
• Section 6 - Information entrusted in confidence to other States or to international organisations.
• Section 7 - Authorised disclosures.
• Section 8 - Safeguarding of information.
• Restriction on prosecutions.
• Penalties.
• Arrest, Search and Trial.
• Definition of Crown seruant and government contractor.
• Other interpretation provisions.
• Procedure for making orders under the act.
• Acts done abroad and extent.
• Citation, commencement, repeals and revocation.

Health and Safety Act - This is basically just an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that as of 2011 defines the fundamental structure and authority for the encouragement, regulation and enforcement of workplace health, safety and welfare within the United Kingdom. There is 4 different acts and them are:

• Securing the health, safety and welfare of people at work.
• Protecting people, other than people just at work, against risks to health or safety that may happen within the activites that happen at work.
• Controlling the keeping and use of explosive or highly flammable or otherwise dangerous substances.
• Controlling the emission into the atmosphere of noxious or offensive substances.

Employees even have their own responsibilites which are to co-operate with their other employees, take care of their own health and safety and that of other people (employees may be liable) and also to not interfere with anything provided in the interest of health and safety.