Video entertainment is the single most valuable part of the UK's audiovisual sector, providing content to suit every taste, age and lifestyle. Video entertainment is distributed on physical and digital formats, from DVD, Blu-ray Discs and 3D Blu-ray Discs through to digital TV-based and web-based internet services, available to rent or to own portable devices and for home consumption.
Film Distributors Association
We represent a distribution stance in regular representations to and consultations with the UK Film Council, the government and other trade organisations in the film industry. We are also a passionate advocate of distributors' pivotal role in the well-being of the whole film economy.
Video Standards Council (VSC)
The Video Standards Council was established in 1989 has an non-profit making body which is set up to develop and oversee a code of practice designed to promote high standards within the video industries.
Trading Standards Press
The Trading Standards Institute is the professional association which represents trading standards professionals in the UK and overseas.TSI performs an important and influencing role in engaging with, and making representations to, Government, UK and EU Parliamentary institutions, and key stakeholders in the local government, community, business and consumer sectors, and other regulatory agencies. TSI aims to sustain and improve consumer protection, health and wellbeing, together with the reinforcement of fair markets, facilitating business competitiveness and success.
Complaints Commission (PCC)
The PCC is an independent body which administers the system of self-regulation for the press. It does so primarily by dealing with complaints, framed within the terms of the Editors' Code of Practice, about the editorial content of newspapers and magazines (and their websites, including editorial audio-visual material) and the conduct of journalists.
Advertising Standards Authority (ASA)
The Advertising Standards Authority plays an essential role in today’s world. It informs, entertains and promotes healthy competition. Our aim at the ASA is to ensure that consumers do not just enjoy the ads they see, but they can trust them too.
The Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF)
Mobile entertainment is created as the convergence of both industries. Each of these worlds speaks a different language, and holds different assumptions about the nature of its work.
The Independent Games Developers Association (IGDA)
is the national trade association representing the business and commercial interests of video and computer game developers in the UK and Europe. Its counterpart representing software publishers in the UK is ELSPA.
British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA)
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) is a charity in the United Kingdom that hosts annual awards shows for excellence in film, television, television craft, video games and forms of animation.
Commercial Radio Companies Association (CRCA)
The Commercial Radio Companies Association (CRCA) is the trade body
for UK commercial radio. It represents commercial radio to Government,
the Radio Authority, copyright societies and other organisations
concerned with radio.The International Visual Communication Association (IVCA)
The International Visual Communications Association exists to represent its members to Government and other stakeholding bodies and to promote effective business and public service communications of the highest ethical and professional standards.
Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C)
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards
British Interactive Multimedia Association (BIMA)
BIMA is dedicated to serving our membership in the UK and abroad. Locally, we are active in discussions with Government, leading industry players and other partner associations. Globally, we represent and champion the UK multimedia industry.
Regulatory Issues
Ownership - is where people decide whether or not to let certain people own a certain amount of media conglomerates. In my opinion I think people can own what they want through how successful they are or let the public of the area decide who will be incharge. Only someone with a certain reputation is able to own media conglomerates.
Monopoly - A monopoly describes a situation where all (or most) sales in a market are undertaken by a single firm. A natural monopoly by contrast is a condition on the cost-technology of an industry whereby it is most efficient (involving the lowest long-run average cost) for production to be concentrated in a single form. In some cases, this gives the largest supplier in an industry, often the first supplier in a market, an overwhelming cost advantage over other actual and potential competitors. In my opinion monopoly is a good idea and I think they should only change the price if the item goes out of bussiness.
Access -The MAC sub-layer acts as an interface between the logical link control (LLC) sublayer and the network's physical layer. The MAC layer emulates a full-duplex logical communication channel in a multi-point network. This channel may provide unicast, multicast or broadcast communication service.
Consumers Choice - is a theory of microeconomics that relates preferences for consumption goods and services to consumption expenditures and ultimately to consumer demand curves. The link between personal preferences, consumption, and the demand curve is one of the most closely studied relations in economics. Consumer choice theory is a way of analyzing how consumers may achieve equilibrium between preferences and expenditures by maximizing utility as subject to consumer budget constraints.
Freedom of Information - comprises laws that guarantee access to data held by the state. They establish a "right-to-know" legal process by which requests may be made for government-held information, to be received freely or at minimal cost, barring standard exceptions. Also variously referred to as open records or (especially in the United States) sunshine laws, governments are also typically bound by a duty to publish and promote openness. In many countries there are constitutional guarantees for the right of access to information, but usually these are unused if specific support legislation does not exist. Other peoples views on freedom really do matter.
Censorship - is the suppression of speech or other public communication which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or inconvenient to the general body of people as determined by a government, media outlet, or other controlling body. For example V for Vendatta insinuates a variety of censorships. Firstly, when using certain things that are historical and not letting other people see.
Taste and Decency -
Transmissions should not include anything which offends against good taste or decency or is likely to encourage or incite to crime or to lead to disorder or to be offensive to public feeling.
Licensees should take note of the guidance contained in Section 1 of the ITC Programme Code, in particular that relating to the use of bad language and bad taste in humour.
In accordance with the ITC’s Family Viewing Policy, normally no editorial material which is unsuitable for children should be transmitted before 9.00 pm. Separate rules apply to advertising - see rule 22 of Part C.
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