Unit 62.2 Copyright and Ethical issues

Copyright and Ethical Issues

During when we will do filming for ‘Micro Life in a Day there will be problems of Copyright example might capture logos of brands and shops, also on TV and music being listening to will be all copyright. The owners might sue us or say you not allow putting it in your video or even take the video off YouTube. So copyrighting is used rightly to credit that brand or creator or owner in the video and might have to pay them so we can put it in the video. The best way to stop for copyrighting is to blur out the logos or not put that shot into the video so we won’t get into trouble.

The ethical issues is that we will have to ask permission to film at a location if it’s private or someone’s property and they will have to sign a relies form to say we can film their property and put it in the video. The other ethical issues is that people might not won’t to be filmed so we also will have to ask their permission to film them and to put it on the video again they will have to sign a relies form. If we are not allowed might ask us to turn off the camera or we can blur their faces in editing.

Copyright law provides that any content used as part of a production must be wholly created by the maker of the film - it should be new and original work. Otherwise written permission must be sought from the copyright-holder agreeing for their work to be included in the production.

All communication with copyright holders must make the outcomes of the work clear, and where it will be seen. This affects what rights are required and what fees may be charged.

Plagiarism is defined in dictionaries as the "wrongful appropriation," "close imitation," or "purloining and publication" of another author's "language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions," and the representation of them as one's own original work, but the notion remains problematic with nebulous boundaries.
Ethics is a term we use to explain moral concepts as opposed to laws, such as good and bad, right and wrong, justice, and virtue.
All filmmakers need to think about ethics, especially if involved in factual/documentary production.

Ethical Issues:

• Power imbalance - what steps can be taken to ensure that the rights of all parties are respected and upheld?

• Audience and the range and scale of distribution - be clear with a film's subjects about the outcomes of the project. 

• Financial and intellectual reward - what would the film's subjects want to receive in

return for participation?

• Cultural and personal respect - be respectful of the people and culture a film represents.