Legislation

The Broadcasting Act 1996 empowers the Secretary of State to

designate key sporting and other events as 'listed events'. The
purpose of these arrangements is to ensure that key sporting events
are made available to all television viewers, particularly those who
cannot afford the extra cost of subscription television. Listed events
are categorised either as Group A or Group B events. The rights to
broadcast listed events - live rights in the case of Group A events
(e.g. Olympics, FIFA World Cup, Wimbledon and European Football
Championship) or highlights in the case of Group B events (e.g.
Cricket Test Matches, Six Nations Rugby or Commonwealth Games)
must be offered to qualifying broadcasters (see 'Services qualifying
to show listed events' below). However, qualifying broadcasters are
not obliged to bid for these rights, so it is possible that on some
occasions listed events may not be shown by a qualifying
broadcaster. Qualifying broadcasters are those whose channels are
available without payment to at least 95% of the UK population.
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With my documentary when filming it I will need to get consent from
the locals that are getting involved within the surfing need to be
okay with the filming that will be going on around them. I need to
make sure that they are permit me to film them in part of my
documentary showing the action and the passionate feelings they
have towards learning the sport. In this case the broadcasting act ,
this allows my documentary to have a back up of empower when it
comes to the footage that will be within the production itself. This
means that the production will be made available to all view under
the name of a listed event it is able to monitor, research and report
on the standards and fairness when it comes to broadcasting my
production. This act particularly affects my production to the way
that the produced codes of broadcasting are examined for standards
and fairness.
Race Discrimination with my surfing documentary production it
doesnt contain any form of race discrimination. As a lot of people
within my documentary will be a variety locals or people that are

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teachers within the surf school. This

allows me to use a lot of different
people causing diversity within my
production. This means I will get more
of a wider ranged audience due to it
not being singled to just one type of
race. This documentary will contain all
types of races due to the way in which
each individual should be treated the same etc.
Gender Discrimination with my documentary I will also not being
included gender discrimination this is due to the topic I am covering.
The surfing sport is focused around both
genders so discriminating one gender
against another would be seen as a serious
negative meaning you would lose a lot of a
wide audience and the topic would lose all
gender meaning.
Copyright issues - Copyright protection
exists from the moment a work is created in
a fixed, tangible form of expression. The copyright immediately
becomes the property of the author who created the work. Only the
author, or those deriving their rights through the author, can
rightfully claim copyright. In the case of works made for hire, the
employernot the writeris considered the author.
With my documentary there will be the use of copyright this is due
to some of the existing footage I will use throughout parts of the
documentary especially topics like the history and action of pro
surfers around the globe. This means that when I have decided what
particular footage I need within the production then that when I
need to contact those who have
created it and see if using the
footage is permitted by them.

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