Describe the legal and ethical consideration required to comply with regulatory bodies for an original radio programme.
Radio is regulated by Ofcom. All radio transmitting devices in the UK are required by law to have a valid licence, otherwise that radio station is not able to legitimately transmit radio, and the broadcaster risks being sentenced to up to two years imprisonment. There has been no changes to the legislation regulating radio since 2006. The act talks about the need to have a licence to broadcast radio. For my pre-recorded radio segment to comply to the Wireless Telegraphy Act 2006, the website where the pre-recorded radio segment has to have the correct licence to broadcast radio over the internet.
One legal issue that is important for the pre-recorded radio segment is that I have get permission to use the voice of all the people who are going to be in the pre-recorded radio segment so that I can uphold the copyright laws. To do this, each person whose voice features on the pre-recorded radio segment must sign a voice artist release form. As well as this I need to make sure that all the music and sound effects that I use, that I have not recorded myself, are royalty free and that I credit the creator of that piece of sound.
As radio is deals with words that are spoken, an important legal issue to think about is that there is no slander. Slander is when lies are spoken about someone in a public forum that are damaging to the person's reputation. The way to avoid this, is to make sure that there is no slander, is to make sure that the speaker only says information that can be proved. Another way to avoid slander, is to make sure that what is being said is definitively an opinion and not though to be a fact. As most radio is live, and therefore what is said cannot be taken back, or edited out, slander can be avoided through rehearsing what is going to be said and making sure that in the rehearsal that there is nothing that is said that is inappropriate, unprovable, lies, or untruths.
When playing music on the radio, it is important that the music's royalties have been payed so that there is not an infringement on the artists's copyright. PPL and PPS are two companies that work together as part of a joint venture which deals with the licensing of music for radio and television. In order to legally use a piece of music, the user must have a correct licence to play the music otherwise it will be an infringement at the artists's copyright. Some music is in the public domain, which means that anyone is able to use it, this happens after a long period of time after the artist's death, or if the artist denounces their right to gain money from the royalties. In my pre-recorded radio segment, I did this by only using royalty free music and then crediting the artist that made the music when the product was distributed online.
As radio is deals with words that are spoken, an important legal issue to think about is that there is no slander. Slander is when lies are spoken about someone in a public forum that are damaging to the person's reputation. The way to avoid this, is to make sure that there is no slander, is to make sure that the speaker only says information that can be proved. Another way to avoid slander, is to make sure that what is being said is definitively an opinion and not though to be a fact. As most radio is live, and therefore what is said cannot be taken back, or edited out, slander can be avoided through rehearsing what is going to be said and making sure that in the rehearsal that there is nothing that is said that is inappropriate, unprovable, lies, or untruths.
When playing music on the radio, it is important that the music's royalties have been payed so that there is not an infringement on the artists's copyright. PPL and PPS are two companies that work together as part of a joint venture which deals with the licensing of music for radio and television. In order to legally use a piece of music, the user must have a correct licence to play the music otherwise it will be an infringement at the artists's copyright. Some music is in the public domain, which means that anyone is able to use it, this happens after a long period of time after the artist's death, or if the artist denounces their right to gain money from the royalties. In my pre-recorded radio segment, I did this by only using royalty free music and then crediting the artist that made the music when the product was distributed online.
One ethical consideration to be used is that the pre-recorded radio segment is to be distributed online which means is could be heard by any number of people, therefore, ethically, there cannot be any foul language that could be overheard by an underage listener. As well as this, ethically, there cannot feature any inappropriate stories as it could offend vulnerable audiences which would be inappropriate.
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