This stands for the Independent Press Standards Association, they regulate newspapers and magazines, regulating meaning that they deal with any content that are in the magazines and newspapers.They follow the Editors code of practice, which covers invasion of privacy, intrusion in to grief of shock and harassment. They do the same jobs as BBFC, OFFCOM and PEGI by regulating a type of media. I will adhere to these laws by only using material that IPSO would approve, my magazine's main article can uphold the editors code of practice as it is about a Tournament and not a person, so it would be hard to invade privacy as its a sociable event. I can also adhere to the code by not going into detail about the persons private life and telling them the questions I will ask before hand so they do not feel on the spot when it comes to asking them. I will not harass anyone whilst interviewing them either as this would violate the code.
Obscene Publication Act
This covers influencing negativity towards a reader, so anything obscene, like nudity, bad language, violence, drug use and alcohol.We can't glamorise or influence the use of drugs and alcohol. This is something we can control in our magazines. It is illegal to publish any content like this. My target audience are male 18 year olds, and if I have any obscene content like drug use for example, because this is the age that them or their friends could know people who sell drugs, and they may go to parties where drugs could be involved, so if we did have content where drug use was shown they might actually take the drugs. But we don't want to encourage or influence the audience to take drugs so we wouldn't have that content involved. My main article is about a card game tournament, the only obscene features that could show in my magazine could be bad language and inappropriate gestures, as it could be that the person I interview could use bad language, but this won't happen because my article is a made up story and I will be making up what the interviewee says. Inappropriate gestures will also not show in my my magazine as the model will be directed to the way I want them to look and so they will not do any inappropriate actions.
Libel Law
This law states that it is Illegal to publish anything that is defamatory to a person, it also covers that the magazine should not give false information, especially about a person as this would be putting a negative effect on someone. I will adhere to this law by not giving my own opinion on a subject, so I give a non-biased opinion as this would mean I'm on both sides of an argument. I am making a fictional story for my main article and this can be classed as violating the law as it can't be untrue information, but because this magazine is for educational reasons and won't be published.
Copyright
This allows to a producer to protect intellectual property. Intellectual property is Someones own creation, such as music, photos and videos etc.You will need to get permissions from the creator to use their product, meaning you'll need to get permission for logos, from companies or bands and any visual assets not owned by you, to put them in your magazines. I will adhere to the copyright laws by never using someones intellectual property without their consent, I will also need to get someones consent when using them in my photos, and if I go out, get permission to use a location, this being if it's privately owned, but if it's public it won't matter. I will seek the owner of the intellectual property if I'm using their material, I can do this by emailing them, phoning them or meeting up with them to negotiate a deal.
Laws of Contempt
Publishing content that can become a risk to proceedings in a court is a criminal offence, it prevents giving out information that the court didn't want to be shared about the criminal case because it may be too shocking to the reader. This won't effect my magazine, but I will adhere to this law by not giving out information someone doesn't want sharing.
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