Monday, 9 February 2015

LO5: Copyright, PRS, legal and ethical issues

Copyright:
To avoid any copyright infringements a PRS license will be purchased, we would have to seek permission for music regardless if they are signed to a record label or not. A PRS license would allow us to use the intellectual property of artists and bands. A PRS license will allow us to play any music on air, this will cost £300 and will have to be renewed annually. We would need a PRS licence because the music on the show is contemporary and could be music from the charts.

Legal and ethical issues:
As our product is based on the genre of Hip Hop/Rap, we must be careful about the use of profane language and discriminatory representations, such as sex, drugs and women.The show will not include profanity and will not mock/slander people. The profanity in music will be taken out prior to the show being aired. Interviews on the show will be pre recorded as they can then be edited and any speech that is not suitable for listening will be removed. Songs that contain inappropriate language will be edited and the profanity will be 'bleeped' out.

The legal and ethical considerations would be discussed in a pre production meeting.

For the audio sample, we have permission to use the sounds as the instrumental and song was created using a free sound kit available to download from YouTube. The voices were recorded by us and we had full permission to record/use them from the subjects.

Link to the kit:

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