Ethics and Legal in the Animation Industry

For this task you need to identify the ethical and legal constraints of your chosen industry. Please list the regulatory bodies which impact on your industry. Make two lists describing what ethical considerations and what legal considerations need to be thought about in your chosen profession. 

Ethical:

• representation of gender
• representation of religious beliefs
• linguistic usages
• accessibility
• professional body codes of practice eg BBC producers’ guidelines,
• Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) accessibility standards

Legal:

• Broadcasting Act 1990 (and later amendments),
• Official Secrets Act 1989,
• Obscene Publications Act 1959 (and later amendments),
• Films Act 1985,
• Video Recordings Act 1984,
• Race Relations Act 1976 (and later amendments),
• Human Rights Act 1998,
• Licensing Act 2003 (and later amendments);
• privacy law;
• copyright and intellectual property law;
• libel law

National Animation Company

Aardman Animation

They are a Vertical company that is best known for their Wallace & Gromit animations and the film, Chicken Run. It was founded in 1972 by Peter Lord and David Sproxton as they wanted to make an animated film. Their first animation work was for segments on a show called "Vision On" and it was working on a claymation segment that inspired them to make "Morph".