1. What is the role of the copyright and trade marks act (2002)?

This act is an amendment of the copyright, designs and patents act 1988 that protects copyrighted material.

2. What is the role of Ofcom?

"Ofcom's responsibilities are wide-ranging, covering all types of industries and processes. It has a statutory duty to the interests of citizens and consumers by promoting competition, and protecting consumers from what might be considers harmful or offensive material. Some of the main areas Ofcom presides over are licensing, research, codes and policies, complaints and competition. Ofcom has a policy to undertake many consultation processes."

3. How do you think downloading tv programmes and films for free have effected the tv and film industries?

Downloading a tv show illegally could effect its budget for a later series of the show. TV shows that get a good amount of audience on so are then put out on dvd and the dvd sales show how popular the show is, the higher the dvd sales there is more chance of the channel the show is on will give them a bigger budget, if they don't make money on dvd sales then they will properly receive a lower budget for next series and the quality of the show might go down. 

Although, the opposing argument for this is that                                                       

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Downloading TV/Film

1. Downloading for personal use

Downloading a tv show for your own use is illegal, you would gain the file of the download from an unofficial party who dose not own the rights so no money gets paid to the creative force of the program. We personally feel that this is a wrong thing to do because it is wrong to take things with out paying when you didn't own them but also illegally downloading could effect the shows future because the show would make less money so no profit  and this could end up with the show getting a lower budget for the future.

Although, you could argue that because online you are only viewing a digital copy of the tv show and not an actual copy of the tv show you are in essence not taking away anything from the production companies.

2. Downloading and giving to to a friend in exchange for money

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To what extent would you...

...say that online Film Reviews are postmodern?

1. Are online reviews inter-textual or bricolage? Why?

This depends if the film in question was an adaptation of another media text. A online film review
can be inter-textual because a film review is only using the film to create it which is the characteristic of inter-textual. but if the film was made from a book lets say, the review can then be bricolage because you would review/compare the book to the film and vice-versa.

2. how dose online reviews relate to baudrillards theory of simulacra?

Online films reviews could be effected by simulacra because the person or people doing the review opinion's could be swayed by other reviews they have seen pointing things out they didnt notice first time round, or they might present there review in a similar way to other reviewers. We where looking at Spill.com they do there reviews as a group in video form, which is something done by many online reviewers, But something they do different is that they have animated versions of themselves in the video. Reviews can have elements of other reviews in them but they can put an original spin in it.