1. Legislation and Ethics, Libel, Confidentiality, Decency and Sexuality
Legislation and Ethics
Libel
Confidentiality
Decency
Sexuality
Sexuality
How is sexuality represented in the gaming industry?
http://www.bitmob.com/articles/this-or-that-dantes-inferno-vs-god-of-war-iii
How are women represented in the gaming industry? Does this affect how females
see the gaming world? How many women play games compared with men (I have
heard that more women play games than men - casual Internet gaming mainly. Is it
true?)
http://www.gameculture.com/2010/11/16/evolution-digital-woman
http://www.gameculture.com/2010/06/07/sexy-women-games-industry-are-better-
role-models
http://www.gameculture.com/2010/03/16/sexual-orientation-video-games
How are gay and lesbian people represented in games? GTA - anything else?
Libel
From Wikipedia:
a false and malicious publication printed for the purpose of defaming a living
person
print slanderous statements against; "The newspaper was accused of libeling
him"
the written statement of a plaintiff explaining the cause of action (the
defamation) and any relief he seeks
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http://www.developingconcerns.com/2011/03/articles/game-industry/libel-in-fiction-
and-video-games-will-this-be-the-next-litigation-front/

2. http://www.sjgames.com/general/guidelines/authors/badstuff.html
Legislation and Ethics
What legislation (basically laws) are involved with computer games e.g. certificates
and the things they entail and how do they cover ethics e.g. Do they protect young
people's minds from violenece, sex etc? Do they protect adults from the same?
Should adults be protected from such things?
http://www.bbfc.co.uk/recent/videogames
Confidentiality
How is privacy protected in computer/video games? Are phone no's, addresses and
other people's details allowed to be added to computer games? What is the Data
Protection Act and how does it protect people's privacy in games?
http://www.soas.ac.uk/infocomp/dpa/policy/overview/
https://www.ukgrecruitment.com/index.php?page=privacy
http://www.reviseict.co.uk/ks4/society/law_penalty.shtml
Decency
This is again going over things such as ethics and possibly sexuality as well as violence.
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/268583/news/duke-nukem-forever-
dances-on-the-line-of-decency/
What does decency mean?
From Google:
the quality of conforming to standards of propriety and morality
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