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Video Game Law Proved a Challenge for United States Supreme Court

The video game law that Califonia passed and which was the object of a lawsuit that reached the United States Supreme Court has been one of the most difficult cases of the term that has just ended, according to one of the judges that ruled on it.Elena Kagan spoke at the McCloskey Speaker Series at the Aspen Institute...

9 August 2011
15:01 GMT

EA Invokes First Amendment in NCAA and Madden Cases

Video game publisher Electronic Arts has invoked Fist Amendment arguments as it tries to get a panel of three judges to throw out a lawsuit that is linked to the way the company has used the likeness and image of football players in its series of NCAA titles. Sam Keller, who was a quarterback for Arizona State, an...

17 February 2011
10:13 GMT

Violent Videogames Law Reaches the Supreme Court

The United States Supreme Court has decided to take on a case linked to the violent videogames bill, which has been enacted in the state of California. The law was supported by state governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and it would make it illegal for shops to sell videogames considered violent to those buyers who are und...

28 April 2010
14:21 GMT

A Police State Is the Answer to Piracy, Big Media Believes

Big businesses using every means they can to ensure their revenue and profitability haven’t been news for at least several decades and probably a lot more. There’s always been a group, or more, trying to bend the laws, or make new ones, to get what they want. The most recent example is the big media compa...

16 April 2010
10:15 GMT

Google Executives Convicted by Italian Court

Google is not having the best day in Europe. After being hit by a rather frivolous, but serious nonetheless, investigation by the European Commission for alleged anti-competition practices, the company has now received the decision in the long-running Google Video lawsuit in Italy and it doesn't look good. Three...

24 February 2010
06:14 GMT

Berlusconi's Government Plans to Severely Restrict Online Video in Italy

The recent Google China debacle has raised the issue of Internet censorship again and made more people aware of the restrictions governments like China's enforce on its citizens. And many probably felt lucky that they didn't live in a country that limits their access to information and the Internet in parti...

18 January 2010
06:12 GMT


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