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Tag Archive for 'video game violence'

The Singularity Law Podcast Episode 6: Happy Birthday, DMCA!

November 4th, 2008 by Joshua Kagan

The DMCA celebrates its tenth birthday; are we better off than we were ten years ago? Who is the real winner in the Google Book Search settlement? Can California’s legislature control violent video games? Michael and Josh tackle these questions and more on this week’s edition of The Singularity Law Podcast!
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Tags: copyleft, Creative Commons, DMCA, GFDL, Google, Google Book Search, GPL, video game violence, video games. The Singularity Law Podcast 1 Comment

Violent Video Games Go (Back) To Court

November 1st, 2008 by Joshua Kagan

California Civil Code § 1746,1 a law enacted in 2005, criminalized the sale or rental of certain violent video games to minors. The law didn’t last long. A federal court declared it unconstitutional last year2 and it wasn’t hard to see why.
As a content-based regulation, § 1746 requires a strict scrutiny analysis,3 which means that such a [...]

Tags: California Assembly Bill 1179, California Civil Code § 1746, video game violence, video games. Free Speech Online, Public Policy Add a comment

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