- Press Compaints Commission (PCC)
- An independent self-regulatory body which deals with complaints about the editorial content of newspapers and magazines and their websites
- Office of Communications (Ofcom)
- The communications regulator; regulates television and radio, fixed line telecoms and mobiles, plus the airwaves over which wireless devices operate
- Department of Culture, Media and Sport
- Department of the United Kingdom government, with responsibility for culture and sport in England, and some aspects of the media throughout the whole UK e.g. broadcasting.
- Governing body of the British Broadcasting Corporation.
- It is operationally independent of BBC management and external bodies, and aims to act in the best interests of licence fee payers.
- Department for Business, Enterprise and Regularity (BERR)
- The Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) was a government department.
- The department was created on 28 June 2007 on the disbanding of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), and was itself disbanded on 6 June 2009 on the creation of the:
- Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
- Advertising Standards Authority (ASA)
- Self-regulatory organisation of the advertising industry.
- Non-statutory organisation and so cannot interpret or enforce legislation.
- Code of advertising practice broadly reflects legislation in many instances.
- Mechanical-Copyright Protection Society (MCPS)
- The Mechanical-Copyright Protection Society (MCPS) are an organisation who pay royalties to composers, songwriters and music publishers when the music they have created is sold.
- This includes sales of the music alone such as CDs and downloads, and also products which use the music as a part of their soundtrack, such as films and computer games.
- Performing Rights Society (PRS)
- When a piece of music is registered with PRS for Music it will allow a songwriter, composer or publisher to begin earning money when it is used.
- 10 million pieces of music.
- This could be when music is used on a radio station, a TV programme or advert or any business using music they’ve created such as shops and offices.
- Phonographic Performance Limited (PPL)
- Music licensing company which licenses recorded music and music videos for public performance, broadcast and new media use
- The income generated is then allocated and paid to their record company and performer members, often referred to as royalties or revenue payments
- British Board of Film Classification (BBFC)
- Non-governmental organisation, funded by the film industry
- Responsible for the national classification of films
- It has a statutory requirement to classify videos, DVDs and some video games under the Video Recordings Act 2010
Censorship is an act of withholding information
or a production from the public. Governments, individuals and private
organisations may engage in censorship. When an individual, for example, an
author, or other creator engages in censorship of their own work or speech, it
is called self-censorship. Censorship has been criticized throughout history
for being unfair and hindering progress. The Russell Brand Show hoax, or
sometimes referred to as ‘Sachsgate’, followed a series of voice messages left
by the comedian Russell Brand and also the TV Presenter Jonathan Ross on the
answering machine of actor Andrew Sachs. This was followed from BBC 2’s
decision to allow this episode of The Russell Brand Show (which was recorded
earlier in the week due to Russell Brand’s other work commitments) to be
broadcasted on Saturday 18th of October 2008.
