Task 7 - Legal and Ethical

Legal and Ethical Issues:

In this section of my blog, I shall aim to highlight any Legal and Ethical issues that may be presented when creating my 3D animation.

If I am creating my animation, I have to be careful to avoid offending certain groups of people. Assets for an animation could offend if designed in a way that attack different cultures, races, ethnicity, religions etc. For example, if a character is being designed, they should not adhere to stereotypes. An example of this would be if I were to design an Italian character for an animation. If they had a high pitched voice, were constantly wearing a chefs outfit and made pasta jokes every other minute, it would be stereotypical and racist. The Ethics of the animation would be compromised and multiple ethical issues would arise.

If I were to implement such a stereotypical portrayal, this would create ethical issues.

Legally, an animation has to adhere to certain legal obligations. For example, copyright could come into play if assets within an animation copy other trademarked work. An example of this would be if I designed a model that was trade marked in order to animate, the owners of that brand could seek legal action to gain a part of any profit. This would be highly damaging to those who breached the copyright and this is best avoided at all costs due to the legal implications of copyright.

Copyright has to be adhered too, lest you want a legal battle you are not likely to win.