6 INVASION OF PRIVACY: The law of privacy, the right to be lot alone, is one of the most difficult to spell out in legal terms. Both law and ethics of journalism uphold the privacy of every citizen in the Nigeria press organization (1978) set out that journalists should respect privacy of individual citizens. Legal action concerning privacy may also involve laws of copyright, libel, contract and property.
7 OBSCENITY: Obscenity, indecency, blasphemy, and profanity are not privileges of speech or press obscenity is punishable by Nigeria law of obscenity (1961) it is refer to thought, magazine and picture that are against good morals obscenity prohibitions may be (1) Of general nature, barring all distribution of defined sexual material or (2) more specific, as for example, in prohibiting sales to minors, public or inclusion of sexual materials in mail advertisement.
FAIRNESS DOCTRINE: One importance feature of the journalism profession is the fairness doctrine requires balanced presentation of controversial public issues, especially those of opposing views .The doctrine is contained in the United States of America federal communication code relating to the media, particularly the broadcast media. All these have been the efforts of man through the ages to free himself from political, economic, religious and social domination that have tried to curtail right to communication and right to political participation. The problems, which practitioners encounter, should therefore, be regarded as a common problem.
COPYRIGHT: copyright in a work is the exclusive right of the owner or author to control his original work. It also extends to the control of the reproduction, broadcasting, publication, adaptation, communication, public performance, or any translation of the work {Daramola 1999:143} The definition covers the making of any cinematograph film or a record in respect of the work.
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