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[deb s]

For a legal analysis, you could read Brenda Brathwaite's Sex in Video Games
book (http://www.amazon.com/Sex-Video-Games-Brenda-Brathwaite/dp/1584504595).
The book is excellent and a fun read, and if you look at the chapter on US
Supreme Court rulings related to obscenity prosecutions, you'll find
some discussion on whether the Court treats games as works of art or merely
"digitized pinball machines".  Disclaimer: I wrote that chapter ;)

It relates more to criminal prosecution than copyright law, but might be an
interesting related approach.

Deb Solomon
www.studygaming.com

On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Beth Smith <creativetruth at yahoo.com> wrote:


>   Hello All,

>

> I am interested in referrals regarding any recent articles, papers,

> journals, books, etc., which discuss why video games are more akin to art

> than to say, for example, functional computer interfaces.

>

> Specifically, I would love to hear about any resources you are aware of

> that would afford video games greater copyright protection as expressive,

> audiovisual works.  Anything you can suggest that would liken games to other

> art forms, i.e. literature, movies, television etc would be of particular

> interest to me.

>

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