Law is the system of rules which a particular country or community recognises as regulating the actions of its members and which may be enforced by the imposition of defined penalties. Examples of the laws that affect the film and TV industries are given below:

Privacy law

Libel is when the defamation is written down (including email, bulletin boards and websites), and slander is when the incident relates to words spoken.

Two Facebook users this recently filed a class action complaint against the social network, Ars Technica reports, alleging that the messaging system inside Facebook is not as private as it’s advertised to be, and that the company actively mines for data from personal messages and generates likes based on the content exchanged between users. Facebook described its messaging system as “unprecedented,” when it comes to privacy controls, but the filing alleges that the company is actually accessing data gathered from chats without the user consent.

The 'News of the World'. a division of News International, whose chairman and chief executive officer is Rupert Murdoch, were charged for phone-hacking 310 people, ranging from Hollywood A listers, such Angelina Jolie, UK stars such as Charlotte Church and Jude Law, royals including Prince William and members of the public who became victims of terrorism or heinous crimes such as Sheila Henry, the mother of 26 year old Christian Small who died in the King's Cross 7/7 bomb blast. 

Ethics are the underlying values, morals and standards that are, or have been, set as the minimum expected of all individuals to meet.

Fixed term a contract that starts and ends on a particular date, or on completion of a specified task.

People who would have this type of contract would be: runners, script writers, designers etc