Volume IV

Issue : 15: September 21, 2006

• China Using Software to Standardize Criminal Sentencing
• Universal Music Targets User Generated Media Sites
• eDonkey Settles With Recording Industry
• Pretext Calls Commonly Used to Obtain Personal and Corporate Data
• U.S. Senate Approves $90M for Media Violence Study
• Executives of Online Gaming Companies Risk Arrest in USA
• Court Rules Retailers Website Must Be Accessible to the Blind

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U.S. Senate Approves $90M for Media Violence Study

On September 13, 2006, the United States Senate approved Bill S 1902, The Children and Media Research Advancement Act (“CAMRA Act”) and referred it to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. The CAMRA Act provides for $90 million in funding to be provided over the next five years for research into the development of children and adolescents as related to electronic mass media. Electronic mass media includes television, motion pictures, DVDs, interactive video games, the Internet and cell phones.

The bipartisan bill calls for all research and funding to be directed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. While the bill is directed to a variety of forms of electronic mass media, primary supporters Joe Lieberman and Hilary Clinton are known as stringent opponents of the videogame industry. Recent attempts to introduce legislation to restrict sales of “violent” videogames have failed in part due to a lack of credible research demonstrating a causal connection between videogame participation and violence in children and teens.

For a copy of the Bill and status information, please visit:

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:s1902: