1. The Copyright and Trademarks act is a law introduced in 2002 to protect content creators. It is a revision of the 1988 act, which by 2002 had become redundant and outdated with the advent of the internet and increasing ease of copying material.

Officially, the act's definition is as follows:

This Act amends the criminal provisions in intellectual property law, more specifically the law relating to copyright, rights in performances, fraudulent reception of conditional access transmissions by use of unauthorised decoders and trade marks. The Act brings about some rationalisation of these criminal provisions by removing some of the differences. The three areas in which rationalisation is provided by the Act are maximum penalties for certain offences in intellectual property law, police search and seizure powers relating to offences and court orders on forfeiture of illegal material that may have been seized during investigation of offences. The Act does not make any changes to the scope of criminal offences in intellectual property law so that the type of behaviour that can give rise to an offence remains the same.

In other words, the updated version of the 1988 "Copyright, Decisions and Patents Act" ensures maximum protection for content creators, and means that anyone caught reusing copyrighted material without express permission may be fined and in extreme cases (mass distribution of copyrighted content, for example) even receive a criminal record.

There are omissions to this: for example, copyrighted material is allowed to be used without either express permission or payment if the intent is to "parody or review". This is how clip shows and review shows can afford to operate.

2. Ofcom's chief role is to enforce the 9 o'clock watershed; they also patronise the elderly.