Film Regulation Notes
REGULATION - Government overseen or run that give out rules and guidance and tells you what to do,
BBFC regulate films in the UK.
- Established in 1912, used to be called british board of film censors
- changed in 1984 to british board of film classification.
All films shown in the UK need to be age rated by law.
Which basically means they're reviewed before release and given a rating in order to protect children from unsuitable and even harmful content.
Other relevant regulations:
- Copyright; when you're not allowed to use someone else's work.
- Originally until 1976 copyright for stories and characters would last for maximum of 56 years.
- Which means Mickey Mouse would be in the public domain by 1984
- But Disney has been successful in lobbying the government.
- Disney's next due date is 2023.
Disney want to keep Mickey Mouse, but all their big hits are basically stolen from other fictional ideas that were already there.
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