Matakuliah
: G0462
English for Broadcasting
Tahun
: 2005/2006
Legal and Ethical Considerations
Legal Restraints
Ethical Concerns
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Legal Restraints
• Obscenity and Indecency
• Libel
• Commercial Speech
• Copyright
2
Obscenity and Indecency
• Different definitions
• Different jurisdictions
• Different media
3
Libel
A person who feels that his or her
reputation has been damaged by a
publication.
4
Commercial Speech
Protection to truthful advertising for
legal products, except when the
government can demonstrate an
overriding public interest in regulating.
5
Copyright
The Constitution (Article 1 Section 8)
gives power to Congress “to promote the
progress of science and the useful arts, by
securing for limited times to authors and
inventors the exclusive right to their
respective writings and discoveries.
6
Ethical Concerns
• Ethics and News
• Ethics and advertising
• Ethics and Entertainment Programming
7
Ethics and News
• Maintaining Objectivity
• Seeking the Truth
• Invasion of Privacy
• Withholding Information
• Loyalty
• Conflicts of Interest
8
Ethics and Advertising
9
Ethics and Entertainment
Programming
• Violence
• Stereotyping
• Mixing entertainment and News
10