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Risk Assessment

Legal & Ethical issues

In terms of photo shoot, this might be in terms of misrepresentation, copyright, royalties

LEGAL

In terms of legal issues, these tends to be about who owns the rights to something, or whether you are slandering (saying something about someone that is not true), or sometimes it can be a legal issue of making sure your content is not breaking the law (as in there is no suffering to animals depicted)

ETHICAL

Ethics are more of a minefield and there are certain ethical considerations that we have in the west that are important to understand. Ethics is about what society views as right.

Such as – is there a balance between male/female genders

If there are, are these stereotypical roles (eg powerful and strong male, weak female often dressed provocatively)

Is there swearing, are there weapons?

Southpark is controversial because a lot of people disapprove of its ethics. However, the producers might argue that it is for a small cult audience who are adult enough to know what is right and what is wrong.

What are the legal and ethical issues of your production and can you justify them?

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LEGAL

Issue	Solved or justified?
Copyright	Solved – Because of brand names being on clothes. We have stuck sticky notes over the name of brands and the labeling of it.
Libel	Solved. There is no libel in our music video or the song so we do not have to worry about the song being discriminative
Discrimination	Solved – There is no discrimination inside of our video. And we have done this to make sure that our video is friendly to people over the age of 13. This is because there is some references to drugs
Permission	Solved-Permission will be asked for all actors before that they are starred in the music video in order to stop any kind of defamation of character.

ETHICAL

Issue	Solved or justified?
Ethnicity groups	Solved as there will be an effort made to try and get those who are of other ethnicity into the video in order to make the cast of the video more diverse.
Unimpressionable dancing	Solved-Within the video there will not be any kind unimpressionable dancing or anything suggestive could affect a younger audience.
Refrences ( Drug use )	Justified-Although there are brief references to drugs within the song “now i’m so high” this can have other suggestions and there will be no kind of drug use in the video that could affect the viewers behaviour.
Morality	Solved because there is no distinctive bad behaviour inside of the video and it is quite clean and will have no negative effect on the people watching the video