Regulatory and professional bodies:
British Board of Film Classification (BBFC)
The BBFC stands for the British Board of Film Classification. They classify different films depending on the content in them. They categorise film in the following way U, PG,12,12A,15,18 R18
British Video Association
The British Video Association is the trade body that represents the interests of publishers and rights owners of video entertainment.
Film Distributors Association
Film Distributors' Association Ltd. (FDA) is the trade body for theatrical film distributors in the UK the companies that release films for UK cinema audiences.
Video Standards Council (VSC)
Promotes high standards in the video and game industry.
Television, Radio and Telecommunications Office for Communication (Ofcom)
Ofcom is an independent regulator and competition authority for the UK communications industries. They deal with licenses in Radio communications, broadcasters and TV broadcasts. They also consumers from what might be considered as harmful or offensive material, they also make sure programmes should be on at the right times.
Ofcom is an independent regulator and competition authority for the UK communications industries. They deal with licenses in Radio communications, broadcasters and TV broadcasts. They also consumers from what might be considered as harmful or offensive material, they also make sure programmes should be on at the right times.
Trading Standards Central
The Trading Standards Institute is a professional membership association formed in 1881. It represents trading standards professionals in the UK and overseas in local authorities, the business and consumer sectors and in central government.
The Trading Standards Institute is a professional membership association formed in 1881. It represents trading standards professionals in the UK and overseas in local authorities, the business and consumer sectors and in central government.
Trading Standards Nets
Training standards make sure what the consumer gets it legitimate.
Training standards make sure what the consumer gets it legitimate.
Press Complaints Commission (PCC)
The PCC is an independent self-regulatory body which deals with complaints about
the editorial content of newspapers and magazines.
The PCC is an independent self-regulatory body which deals with complaints about
the editorial content of newspapers and magazines.
Advertising Standards Authority (ASA)
The ASA is here to make sure all advertisements are legal, decent, honest and truthful
The ASA is here to make sure all advertisements are legal, decent, honest and truthful
The Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF)
MEF provides an impartial, consistent and powerful voice for the foremost companies and entrepreneurs from across the mobile content and commerce value chain
MEF provides an impartial, consistent and powerful voice for the foremost companies and entrepreneurs from across the mobile content and commerce value chain
The Independent Games Developers Association (IGDA)
Represents the business and the commerical interests and video industry
Represents the business and the commerical interests and video industry
British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA)
BAFTA is the leading independent charity supporting, developing and promoting the art forms of the moving image in the UK - from Film and Television to Video Games and Interactive Media.
BAFTA is the leading independent charity supporting, developing and promoting the art forms of the moving image in the UK - from Film and Television to Video Games and Interactive Media.
Radio Academy
It represents commerical radio to government and other organisations concerned with commerical radio.
The International Visual Communication Association (IVCA)
IVCA is the independent not for profit membership organisation representing the creators and commissioners of film, video, digital and live events for the corporate and public sectors. It represents commerical radio to government and other organisations concerned with commerical radio.
The International Visual Communication Association (IVCA)
Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C)
This is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards.
British Web Design and Marketing Association
To encourage and promote industry standards within the British web design and new media sector.
British Interactive Multimedia Association (BIMA)
It supports the digital industry encouraging the next generation to understand the industry.
Regulatory issues:
Ownership: An example of ownership in the media. Ofcom the government and the media regulations had to decide whether Rupert Murdoch could buy 60% of sky.
Monopoly: Media monopoly is where people cant own too much of something, or have to much power in one media sector.
Access: People who are not allowed to access peoples personal imformation.
Consumer choice: Is where costumers try to save money on products, they use price compare adverts.
Freedom of information:Freedom of information legislation comprises laws that guarantee access to data held by the state. They establish a "right-to-know" legal process by which requests may be made for government-held information, to be received freely or at minimal cost, barring standard exceptions.
Censorship:Censorship is the suppression of speech or other public communication which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or inconvenient to the general body of people as determined by a government, media outlet, or other controlling body.
Taste and Decency:Taste and decency are other areas in which questions are often raised regarding self-censorship. Art or journalism involving images or footage of murder, terrorism, war and massacres may cause complaints as to the purpose to which they are put. Curators and editors will frequently censor these images to avoid charges of prurience, shock tactics or invasion of privacy
Monopoly: Media monopoly is where people cant own too much of something, or have to much power in one media sector.
Access: People who are not allowed to access peoples personal imformation.
Consumer choice: Is where costumers try to save money on products, they use price compare adverts.
Freedom of information:Freedom of information legislation comprises laws that guarantee access to data held by the state. They establish a "right-to-know" legal process by which requests may be made for government-held information, to be received freely or at minimal cost, barring standard exceptions.
Censorship:Censorship is the suppression of speech or other public communication which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or inconvenient to the general body of people as determined by a government, media outlet, or other controlling body.
Taste and Decency:Taste and decency are other areas in which questions are often raised regarding self-censorship. Art or journalism involving images or footage of murder, terrorism, war and massacres may cause complaints as to the purpose to which they are put. Curators and editors will frequently censor these images to avoid charges of prurience, shock tactics or invasion of privacy
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