Legal

Jobs in the legal side of the media sector involve dealing with factors such as defamation, slander, data protection, copyright laws and discrimination. The main legal job roles involve looking at something before it is aired on tv or in the cinema to make sure that it doesn't breach specific laws. There have been plenty of breaches of these laws and many controversial episodes of certain TV shows have been aired, and in the end have either been taken down or the channel have had to apologise for any offense that may have been caused. For example there was an episode of Top Gear where the hosts described Mexicans as being 'lazy, feckless, flatulent and overweight'. In the end the episode was cleared and removed of controversy by Ofcom. Ofcom are basically the people who look at programmes/films before they are aired and are the main company in terms of legal jobs.