Copyright: Copyright is the exclusive and assignable legal right, given to the creator of an original idea. It is used to stop content being stolen or used by someone else without giving the owner/creator any credit and protects artistic and literary expression. Sometimes the creator of an original product may not have the legal copyrights to it, this can be because of certain reasons, especially in the games industry, these reasons could be because the original owner sold the rights of the creation to someone else or a different company or the creation could have been done while the creator was working for a company and had signed a contract for any creations that are made to belong to the company, the owner may also give consent for someone or a company to use the idea or work, this allows the company some use but only within the terms and guidelines that the owner gives them. Copyright can last the duration of the creators life and even up to 50 - 100 years after death.
Ethics and Morals: When creating a game developers have to consider what is ethically and morally right and wrong, ethics are used more on a business side as a set of rules while morals are more of a personal effect for people to deal with. To stop the game becoming controversial and hurting people on an emotional level the Ethic and Moral rules are put into place.
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