Sunday, 31 May 2015

LO2: Relevant legal And Ethical issues.



Copyright is a legal right created by the law of a country, that grants the creator of an original work exclusive rights to its use and distribution. 

Pure Cheddar would have a PRS licence to enable us to play music which will cost £300 per year and this will be funded by advertisers


 The Ofcom Broadcasting Code ("the Code"), the most recent version of which took effect on 21 March 2013, covers all programmes broadcast on or after 21 March 2013.

We had to address these regulations for our show.

Our shows will abide by OFCOM regulations by not being offensive and promoting inappropriate material and/or activity. We had to follow these regulations and research about this when we were creating our script.


 Here are a list of the OFCOM broadcasting regulations. http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/broadcasting/broadcast-codes/broadcast-code/

 he regulations that are most relevant to Pure Cheddar and that we will ensure we will not break include

  • Section two: Harm and Offence
  • Section five: Due impartially and due accuracy and undue prominence of views and opinions


Legal and Ethical issues we would need to look into as a show is checking all the features of the show to make sure that there is nothing offensive to the listeners. Topics we would check for would be
  • Religion
  • Sexuality
  • explicit Language or Content
  • Sexism
  • Size Discrimination
We would also make sure that nothing is aired that would promote any illegal activity, such as drug use, or underage drinking.

To link this to our show, we will need to have a PRS licence to ensure that none of our music contain taboo language which could offend our audience. 

As a wide variety of our audience are multi-cultural,  we will abide by OFCOM regulations to ensure nobody is offended.

In terms of our music and sound effects on www.AudioLGFL.net which is free to use and has no copyright attached.

Songs played on the show do have copyright and for us to play these live on air we would need to receive permission.

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