Legal vs Ethical.

Legal - anything governed by law. 

Ethical - 'issues; not covered by law wihch may raise strong feelings or moral question in the audience. 

Scenarios:

• Driving without a seatbelt - legal issue.
• Asking a freind for money - ethical issue.
• Erceting a new fence between you and your neighbours - legal issue.
• Leaving someone in the street who is dying - ethical issue.

Legal bodies:

• OFCOM (Office Of Communications) - ofcom is the regulator for telecommunications serices in the UK, they have wide-ranging powers across the TV, radio, telecoms and postal sectors.     ofcom seeks to protect the British public from elements such as scams and sharp practices, they also ensure that the content being shown is sutiable for the specififc target audience. Some of the main areas ofcom presides over are licing, research, codes and policies, complaints, competition and poretcing to thje radio sepctrum from abuse. 

• BBFC (British Board of classification) - BBFC regualte and classify films in the UK to ensure that they're suitable for the target audience, all films to be released to the public are subject to BBFC classification, BBFC also regualte trailers and promos for films.

• ASA (Advertising Standards Authority) - ASA are a self-regulatory organization that regualte all adverts across diffrent platfroms in the UK to ensure that they're suitable for thre target audience's.