LO3 Legal and Ethical

Legal
In the animation industry there are lots of legal issues that can arise from animation production, the most important one to avoid is intellectual property infringement as in the animation industry intellectual property is everything to studios. Another legal issue to avoid is Defamation of character, this is especially hard for animations such as south park and family guy as they use some strong and colourful language that might offend people. This defamation can be excused if what was said turns out to be the truth and is an honest opinion.

Ethical
There are not as many ethical issues as legal issues however they are equally as important as they directly relate to the target audience. One ethical issue would be non-disclosure, this is a very important ethical requirement from most big name animation studios as it directly affects the IP of a product. Another ethical issue is image content as it is a blurry issue. Image content is when materials "looks like" other peoples materials so there are clashes. Censorship is also a large ethical issue as it affects the audience in a big way, censorship is the condemnation of selected content in a piece of media, in the animation industry it often occurs when an animation is at risk of breaching defamation of character by insulting, offending or discriminating.