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Tuesday, 16 July 2013

Music Video Restrictions

Although there aren't any real laws against music videos, recently there has been an up raw about the decency of some of there content. For example, Catch up TV and You tube has enabled children of any age to watch anything even media that is supposed to be broad casted after the watershed. For example, there was a music video for the song by Robin Thicke's called Blurred Lines with topless women featured in it and it was banned from You tube because of how many complaints it obtained. Nevertheless the musics still there just the video was cancelled however it is still available on the internet and when people search for it, it becomes part of their digital identity. Anyway this is the clean video:



However, there is some restrictions on the music itself if it under the copy right law. Radio Stations have to buy licenses to be able to broadcast musicians music. This alliance was created in 1997 to prevent people copying act.
In 1999 an 18 year old boy Shawn Fanning created a Programme called Nasper service which led to a load of copyright battles and rebellious content within the music and their videos especially in the Metallica Genre.

Nevertheless, David Cameron looks like he is going to bring lin legislations to provide an age restrictions on music videos soon because the over sexualisation of children aged 12-17 and the Ofcom report suggest that clothing and dancing and not just the words of the song contribute to increased teenage pregnancy.

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