Task 4 – Legal and Ethical Checklist

Salford City College Eccles Sixth Form Centre BTec Level 3 Extended Diploma in Creative Media Production Games Design

Unit 68 – 3D Environments

HA12 – Hidden Places

Legal and Ethical Checklist

This AGREEMENT, between the undersigned:

Slide – Represented by Andy Boyd (MD)

Thomas Joseph Gaynor

Hereafter referred to as the “Collaborators” is made this tenth day of June in the year Two Thousand and Sixteen.

Thomas Joseph Gaynor has checked and agreed that the “Work” has been checked for decency, representation of race, gender religion and sexuality and has met an appropriate standard. In addition, I own all the relevant intellectual property contained within the “Work”.

AGREED TO AND ACCEPTED.

Signature:
Printed name:	Andy Boyd
Date:	10/07/2017

Signature:	T.Gaynor
Printed name:	THOMAS JOSEPH GAYNOR
Date:	10/07/2017

NOTES

Consider the following BEFORE completing the checklist as you are providing a warranty to the developer, Slide: ·        Check all your facts – and document where possible, citing sources etc. ·        Is it ethical (have you considered the ethical issues involved)? Does it feel right? How would you feel if you saw a review of your game reported in a newspaper, magazine or online? How would you feel about your peers, friends, family knowing about it? Is your idea compromising anyone’s confidentiality? How does your concept challenge issues of decency and the representation of race, gender, religion, sexuality etc? ·        Is it legal? Do you have the right to use the media and equipment you are using to create your prototype? Does it comply with rules, policies, standards and contracts imposed by relevant regulators/bodies? Does it infringe anyone else’s intellectual property rights.

Copyright
Copyrights are "the exclusive and assignable legal right, given to the originator for a fixed number of years, to print, publish, perform, film, or record literary, artistic, or musical material." Which allows you alone to sell and make profit off of something that you own such as copyrighting a game means no one else can publish that game without your say so.
A positive of copyright laws is that they protect the intellectual property of workers who work in creative fields such as music and games, by using copyright laws you are able to protect your hard work from being ripped off and used for other peoples profit in a civil setting.
A negative of copyright laws is that they can be quite vague and open to interpretation because a game can be quite similar yet avoid copyright because there are certain things you cant copyright.

Ethics and Morals
Ethics and morals are used when making a legal and ethical checklist, ethics are what is ethical and refers to business these can be things like not using a terrorists in a game because in real life terrorism just happened in real life because that is quite unethical whereas morals refer to people, ethics are put in place to protect the innocent from getting hurt.

Task 4 – Legal and Ethical Checklist

Ensure that you have carried out a legal and ethical check of your proposal and provided appropriate evidence of this.

Remember that you are trying to generate thoroughly thought-through ideas for a 3D environment showing creativity and flair and working independently to professional expectations.

This provides evidence Unit 68 – P2, M2, D2