LO2 Legal and Ethical Considerations

Legal:

Obscene Publications Act - Inappropriate content in the magazine.

Illegal to publish content that may negatively influence readers. My audience are adults from 30 to 70 mostly female ABC1. E.g. safety, representation about the cultures that the food comes from.

I will have to be careful not to glamorize places where the food may have come from e.g. Mexican gangs. If alcohol is used in a recipe be careful to only use in in context.

Examples of this include:

Do not include any sharp objects or knifes in the image e.g. knife in background or wearing oven gloves when holding tray from the oven. As well as the stereotype of women being in kitchen.

My magazine will need to be very careful with how it represents several different images in the magazine. For example the food that I will be including in the magazine. I will need to be careful to not promote the negative aspects of where the food comes from, for example gangs around the area where the food originally came from e.g. Mexico and the Cartels. I will also need to be careful to not reinforce stereotypes such as women are usually portrayed as in the kitchen. To address this issue I will be using no models throughout the magazine.

Copyright:

Below are some examples of image that I will be using in the magazine. The photos fit the genre of the magazine because they are of the pages and the food that is going to be in the magazine. They are key photos such as the main cover photos on each page.

 

Libel Law - Illegal to post defamatory harmful content about a person or publish untrue information.

I will need to make sure not to say that people are who we say they are. I will need to check facts on the cultures about the food making sure that the information is correct that is put in the magazine. Libel law aims to stop the spread of misinformation and allows companies and individuals to be protected for other individuals.

 

Copyright - Allows producers of content to protect their intellectual property.

All of the assets are all produced by me banners and ads and design for each page the body copy I will write. All my own work (Laws Of Contempt) it is a criminal offence to publish anything biased about an ongoing legal court case suing a restaurant in the magazine. Only be able to tell facts in the magazine find a news article that went to court cooking.

Court Case Example - Nigella Lawson.

An example of a court case is nigella lawson and her court case involving illegal drugs that were found at her house. Nigella lawson had been making several different TV programs and cooking books. The lawsuit changed the publics opinion of her and as a result she lost sales in books and popualrity. This is just one example of a court case that I could not report on in my magazine becuase I would not be able to put my own opinion in the magazine in case I get the magazine sued for slander. I would only bve able to state the facts of the case in the magazine.