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	Law of the Game (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		However, the SGPA hasn't passed, and so therefore it is reasonable to assume that the UIGEA still encompasses games of skill until the courts say otherwise, even though the UIGEA is quite ambiguous on the matter..
		On the one hand, it is always positive to see people outside the gaming establishment finally realize and accept that these virtual goods, be they land in Second Life or an Infinity Blade in World of Warcraft, do have a "value." Moreover, the idea of protecting players from theft is definitely a positive one.
		Regardless of your stance on game regulation, the wisdom of self regulation is evident in many industries, from law to medicine.
	lawofthegame.blogspot.com (2218 words)

	Game (food) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Game is any animal hunted for food or not normally domesticated (such as venison).
		In the UK game is defined in law by the Game Act 1831 [1].
		Large game such as deer is quickly field-dressed by removing the viscera in the field, while very large animals like moose may be partially butchered in the field because of the difficulty of removing them intact from their habitat.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Game_(food) (562 words)

	USATODAY.com - Federal court strikes down Illinois video game law (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Democratic governor and other supporters of the measure have argued that children were being harmed by exposure to games in which characters go on killing sprees or sexual escapades.
		Opponents declared the law a restriction on free speech and pointed out that similar laws had been struck down in other states.
		The state also would have to show the law was the only way to achieve the state's goal and that it was as narrowly written as possible.
	www.usatoday.com /tech/news/2005-12-03-video-law_x.htm (575 words)

	A+E Interactive: California Violent Video Game Law Signed Into Law By Gov. Schwarzenegger -- Will His Own Games Be ...
		Cathy Kirkland, a media law partner at the law firm Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich and Rosati, said that the law was carefully crafted to address the First Amendment challenges that the game industry has argued before.
		He said that games that are ultra-violent and were wrongly labeled by the industry as teen games, however, could be rated as "18" games under the law.
		Basically, the video game industry can chose to be like the automobile industry, and embrace the regulation of their product when it comes to kids, or they can be like the tobacco industry and fight to sell their product to minors.
	blogs.mercurynews.com /aei/2005/10/california_viol.html (2139 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The State Senator is proposing legislation that would restrict the sale of video games to minors, despite the fact that there is questionable national legislation already pending (that's likely unconstitutional), and state attempts to pass such laws to date have been smashed by the judicial gavel.
		There is no doubt that AO games fall into this category, and the definition of "violence" is so broad in the proposed legislation that it would include not only all of the M titles, but probably a portion of the T titles as well.
		The legislation, as drafted, would also fail first amendment tests, because the legislation fails to consider the games as artistic works, which would mean that backers would have to prove in a court of law that such games are harmful to minors—something that no one has been able to prove before.
	arstechnica.com /news.ars/post/20051230-5872.html (805 words)

	Judge blocks California video game law \| CNET News.com
		California is one of a string of states that recently have enacted similar laws restricting violent and sexually explicit video games--legislation that has been uniformly rejected by the courts.
		Laws in Illinois and Michigan were blocked by federal judges on First Amendment grounds in the last few weeks, and earlier laws in Indianapolis and Missouri's St. Louis County have also been shot down.
		The California law said minors must be restricted from buying a "violent video game." That was defined as a game in which the player has the option of "killing, maiming, dismembering or sexually assaulting an image of a human being" in offensive ways.
	news.com.com /Judge+blocks+...+video+game+law/2100-1043_3-6005835.html (913 words)

	Technorati Tag: game law (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		I'm considering writing a book about game systems in the 80's and would like to be able to include screenshots of many of the games.
		Slashdot had an update on the continuing battle of state legislators to protect the children from video games that are violent and/or sexually...
		A federal judge has ruled that a Michigan law that bars retailers from selling or renting violent video games to minors is unconstitutional.
	technorati.com /tag/game+law (521 words)

	SSRN-Ending Patent Law's Willfulness Game by Mark Lemley, R. Tangri (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		An odd set of legal rules stemming from patent law's effort to determine what constitutes willful infringement effectively requires companies confronted with a patent first to obtain a written opinion of counsel and then to disclose that opinion in court.
		Even worse, the law puts the question whether an accused infringer will have to waive privilege in the hands of the patent owner, who can send a carefully crafted letter putting a potential defendant on notice of the patent.
		In turn, accused infringers who are aware of these rules respond to such letters by obtaining a sort of pseudo-legal advice that both they and their attorneys recognize to be a construct.
	papers.ssrn.com /sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=472901 (771 words)

	Amazon.com: Law & Order: Dead on the Money: Computer & Video Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The game definitely draws you along, You eagerly await the results of the tests you request, and wonder what the people you are talking to are hiding.
		(in game time, not real time) It has a good storyline, suspicious, annoying, lying characters with secrets to protect, and it is fun to see what suspect you will interrogate next, what lab reports, research of items and people, the survailence unit to tail a suspect, the game is really fun.
		This game would be very interesting and entertaining if they didn't cut off the investigation after a week (that's game time, not real time).
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000663U5?v=glance (1833 words)

	BetaNews \| California Violent Game Law Shot Down
		Laws in Illinois and Michigan have also been previously shot down on constitutional grounds, and legislation in the city of Indianapolis and Saint Louis County, Mo. have met a similar fate.
		But supporters of violent game legislation say retailers are not holding up their end of the bargain by ahering to the ESRB rating system and refusing the sale of questionable titles to minors.
		Also "Whyte questioned California's claim that violent video games could cause psychological or other harm to children." - Anybody who argues that 'input' to a brain/body system doesn't affect the output from the same brain/body system (even subconciously) is dead when it comes to self awareness.
	www.betanews.com /article/California_Violent_Game_Law_Shot_Down/1135282038 (2025 words)

	Game Law (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This area serves as a repository for all game rules, laws and conditions.
		In all seriousness though, a new law may be born of an action a player takes.
		If their action undermines game integrity, economy, community, etc, they will be punished under the new law.
	www.alienaa.com /law (270 words)

	GAF - News - Illinois violent game law moves forward
		Similar laws have been passed in other areas of the country, however federal courts have repeatedly struck the laws down.
		Unlike previous attempts at this type of law, under this Illinois legislation, clerks who knowingly sell "adult" video games to minors could be fined $1,000.
		And if it is a game rather than a project, then it's because of the media attention that anyone is going to want to buy it.
	www.gamesarefun.com /news.php?newsid=5075 (1399 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The law, which goes into effect January 1, will require game makers to ensure the label is placed on the appropriate games.
		The effort to more closely regulate games gained steam earlier this summer after a ratings group in July attached an “Adults Only” rating to Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas after finding that Take-Two was responsible for inserting the sexually explicit material in the game.
		Next year, the video game industry is expected to grow into a $28.5 billion-worldwide industry, reaching the size of the global recorded music industry.
	www.redherring.com /article.aspx?a=14676 (816 words)

	London Law
		The game is unusually asymmetric; one player controls the movements of the criminal Mr.
		London Law requires Python 2.3 or greater, as well as wxPython 2.4.x or 2.5.x (Mac users are advised to use wxPython 2.5, which offers more mature OS X support).
		London Law has a mailing list; this is a good place to report bugs, discuss future development, or even ask for people to play a game with.
	www.eecs.umich.edu /~pelzlpj/londonlaw (513 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		He also said that video games are protected by the First Amendment, and that the proposed law’s decision of “violent video games” was vague.
		But soon after the law was passed, the game industry sued Governor Schwarzenegger in an effort to kill the law (see Game Makers Sue Governator).
		Though the law might be blocked, parents are growing concerned over graphic content that could influence kids’ actions and can be addictive in some cases (Gaming Death Stirs Debate).
	redherring.com /Article.aspx?a=15011&hed=Judge+Blocks+Video+Game+Law (597 words)

	Gamasutra - Feature - "Game Law: The Good News About Digital Distribution"
		But eventually it became apparent that even though the folks on the product acquisition side were very interested in the game, the marketing folks were not going to green light the deal because their retail buyers had not heard of the game and would not put in significant initial orders necessary to minimize their risk.
		The so-called casual games, or “Pop Games” as I like to refer to them, have been building this model in the PC market for several years.
		The size of the game that can be downloaded on XBLA is limited to the size of the 64MB memory card, which limits things somewhat when compared to PC downloads.
	www.gamasutra.com /features/20060301/buscaglia_01.shtml (1219 words)

	Opinion - Video-game law lets parents shirk duty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In addition to posing a massive threat to free speech, a law signed by the governor Oct. 7 sets a precedent in which government regulation, far from helping parents, gives them an easy way to shirk their obligations by paying less attention to what games their children are playing.
		Worse, the law sets a precedent that puts government, not parents, in charge of determining what content is acceptable for children.
		The law requires the labeling and restriction of games with violence that is "especially heinous, cruel or depraved." Clearly anticipating that this is an impossibly nebulous standard, the bill's authors further defined cruel, depraved, and heinous, but the results are still far from precise.
	www.ocregister.com /ocregister/opinion/columns/article_866611.php (796 words)

	Imagining What We Do Is a Game (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		To the extent that law students "must come to understand or sense something of the logic and symmetry of a system of rules," they often become rule-oriented players of the law game.
		Stuart Scheingold contends that the attraction of the law game lies in the "intellectual and even aesthetic satisfaction in coming to understand the internal logic of the system and real gratification in working out dependable doctrines which reconcile apparent contradictions among rules."
		Object games can be thought of as games played for the attainment of material things, primarily money and the objects which money can buy.
	www.wvu.edu /~lawfac/jelkins/pmpl99/imagine/game2.html (774 words)

	Michigan game law temporarily blocked - PlayStation 2 News at GameSpot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Although he only issued a preliminary injunction to block the law, and the court battle to decide the law's fate is yet to come, Steeh's explanation of his judgment can only be seen as encouraging to the ESA's case.
		Currently the ESA is involved in lawsuits to overturn game restriction laws in Illinois, California, and Michigan.
		They claim that these laws will help stop violent games from getting in the hands of kids but it's a parents responsibilty to control what games their kids play, it's not the responsiblity of the gov't.
	www.gamespot.com /news/6139517.html (757 words)

	ESA
		In his decision declaring the law unconstitutional, the judge forcefully sided with the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) in its lawsuit against the Governor of Illinois and others.
		The ESA sought relief from the state’s Violent Video Games Law and Sexually Explicit Video Games Law, arguing before the court that these statutes were unconstitutionally vague and challenged the research used to support the laws.
		The court found the testimony of the state’s key witnesses, noted video game critics Dr. Craig Anderson and Dr. William Kronenberger, to be completely unpersuasive.
	www.theesa.com /archives/2005/12/judge_halts_unc.php (539 words)

	IGN: Industry Sues to Kill Violent Game Law
		The statement goes on to emphasize that the games industry, via groups such as the ESA and the ESRB rating system, is effectively identifying mature-themed games and preventing their sale to minors.
		The ESA points out that both the average game buyer and the average game player are adults, and that only 16% of games sold in 2004 were rated Mature.
		Given gaming's diverse audience, the ESA feels games should not be treated more harshly than other media, such as movies or music.
	ps2.ign.com /articles/636/636354p1.html (465 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A Michigan law barring the sale of violent video games to minors became the first of three recently passed measures to be set aside by a judge.
		In a decision made Wednesday, the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan ruled that the Michigan law was not likely to pass constitutional muster, and that the law would cause "obvious harm" if it were allowed to go into effect on December 1 as mandated.
		Rockstar was forced to withdraw the game from the market and release a decaffeinated version after the ESRB removed the game's M for Mature rating.
	arstechnica.com /news.ars/post/20051110-5550.html (503 words)

	Law.com - The 'X-Box' Bar
		While many firms have ventured into the field and litigated big cases in the industry, Morrison is among the first to have a formal video game practice area within the firm.
		The industry's $7 billion in 2003 sales has created more opportunities for law firms to expand their services into the field, where key legal issues include copyright and content ownership.
		Though not as prevalent in the video game industry as in music, Weiss said it has been a factor when negotiating with distributors to ensure their methods will make it hard to download the game illegally.
	www.law.com /jsp/article.jsp?id=1087242921704 (793 words)

	Video Game News By Lindsay : Schwarzenegger Signs Video Game Law
		A recent case in Washington declared a law that fined retailers for selling or renting games to minors that displayed harm to law enforcement officers unconstitutional.
		The ruling was based on the idea that video games are a form of protected speech and that the obscecnity law did not cover non-sexual forms of violence.
		But there are some (or even all) games that kids can't buy in a shop on their own, and a bit of enforcement, so that the whining morons who try to ban stuff will shut their stupid holes.
	forums.cheatcc.com /blogs/news_by_lindsay/archive/2005/10/07/57226.aspx (1606 words)

	PC Magazine: Industry Plans to Sue to Stop Calif. Video Game Law
		SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)—The video game industry on Monday vowed to challenge California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in court to fight a new law banning the sale of violent video games to children.
		The trade group Entertainment Software Association "intends to file a lawsuit to strike this law down and we are confident that we will prevail," President Douglas Lowenstein said in a statement on Monday.
		The legislation bars the sale and rental to minors of games that show such things as the killing, maiming or sexual assault of a character depicted as human, and which are determined to be especially heinous, atrocious or cruel.
	findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_zdpcm/is_200510/ai_n15666714 (419 words)

	Illinois video game law challenged in court \| CNET News.com
		A new Illinois law restricting the sale of violent video games to minors is unconstitutional, software makers and resellers asserted in a lawsuit filed on Monday.
		Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, a Democrat, has heralded the state law as a way to help parents police what games their children may buy or rent.
		Their court documents follow traditional First Amendment themes, arguing that video games are protected by the same venerable constitutional principles that shield books and newspapers from intrusive government regulation.
	news.com.com /Illinois+video+game+law+.../2100-1043_3-5803988.html (920 words)

	Video Game Law Blog : (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This may be because the new law does not deal with video game violence; instead it prohibits the display of an obscene video game to a minor.
		The Warcraft games are made by Blizzard Entertainment, a subsidiary of Vivendi Universal SA, but Xinhua reports that a Chinese court rejected a claim by the parents against the game maker.
		The Court stated that video games are protected by the First Amendment’s freedom of speech principles, and that the law would likely be ruled unconstitutional.
	www.davis.ca /community/blogs/video_games (2895 words)

	GameTab - The Game Reviews & News Compilation Site.
		Preview: Proving that "hardcore" games can still sell on Wii, Metroid takes the top spot in US all-format chart.
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	www.gametab.com (666 words)

	Apple - Games - Law and Order: Dead on the Money (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Aspyr Media’s game Law and Order: Dead on the Money borrows from the popular TV show’s dramatic structure as it puts you on the trail of a murder investigation in the dual roles of detective and assistant DA.
		The game features 25 voice-over actors, including Jerry Orbach, Elisabeth Röhm, and S. Epatha Merkerson, who reprise their TV roles of Briscoe, Southerlyn, and police lieutenant Anita Van Buren, respectively.
		The scenes you watch as the story unfolds are drawn from the 400 possible ones in the game; the ones you see depend on the actions you take.
	www.apple.com /games/articles/2003/09/lawandorder (753 words)

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