Regulatory & Professional Bodies

After describing a regulatory body from each sector of the media industry, the remaining ones will be briefly outlined below.

British Video Association - Formed in 1980 to represent the interests of publishers and nights owners if pre-recorded video entertainment.

Film Distributors Association - A trading body for theatrical film distributors in the UK, these are the companies that release films for UK cinema audiences.

Video Standards Council - Established in 1989, it is a standards body for the video and video games industries. It provides it's retailer members with a staff training course to ensure they deal with age restricted video, DVD's and video games, appropriately. They act as an administrator of the PEGI system of video game certification.

The Mobile Entertainment Forum - Global trade association for companies wishing to monetise their products and services via mobile. Established in 2000, MEF represents the total mobile ecosystem providing on impartial and powerful voice for pioneering companies from across the mobile content and commerce value chain.

The Independent Games Developers Association - Founded in 2001, international organisation to network collaborative projects and communities comprised of individuals from all fields of game development from programmers and producers to writers, artists, QA and localisation.

British Academy of Film and Television Arts - The leading UK charity that supports art forms of moving image - film, television and video games - helping to promote and develop these forms. They identify and reward excellence, inspiring practitioners and benefiting the public.

The International Visual Communication Association - They exist to represent it's members to government and other stakeholding bodies and to promote effective business and public service communications of the highest ethical and professional standards.

World Wide Web Consortium - Information on this can be found here.

British Interactive Multimedia Association - Represents the diverse interests of the British digital industry since 1985. It exists to do four things; support and promote the British digital industry, share knowledge and best practise, reward great work and encourage the next generation.