Notes about Legal and Ethical Considerations for Writers

This section of our book mainly talks about how it is impossible for the government to afford to give complete freedom to its press. This is how people are protected from false accusations such as stating that they committed a crime, discrediting someone on their profession, or saying that someone has a terrible disease. This section also describes the four invasions of privacy. These are false-light invasion, publication of intimate life details, misappropriation of someones name to endorse a product, and physical intrusion into the persons private life.
The chapter includes the Copyright Law, which most of us are familiar with from years of essay writing in school, where we learned the difference between citing sources and copying another person. But the chapter goes on to include the rights of your publications. These include All Rights, which means you agree to give up the right to use the material at a later time, in any form. First Serial Rights means that the magazine or newspaper has the right to be the first to run your material and after that the rights are returned to you. Like First Serial Rights, Second Serial Rights focus on reprinting the article after it has already been published before. The last and not as well used one is Simultaneous Rights, which is when rights are given to more than one place at the same time. The chapter ends with a wrap up about making ethical decisions and that an important thing to remember is to consult your conscience and the policy of where you are publishing.

Midterm Portfolio

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