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FTC Issues Report on Marketing Violent Entertainment to Children

Test Yourself: Entertainment Software Ratings Quiz [Requires Flash]

Consumer Alert: Video Games: Reading the Ratings on the Games People Play

Undercover Shoppers Find It Increasingly Difficult for Children to Buy M-Rated Games

Workshop

October 29, 2003
Marketing Violent Entertainment to Children: A Workshop on Industry Self-Regulation
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Reports

December 2009
Marketing Violent Entertainment to Children: A Sixth Follow-Up Review of Industry Practices in the Motion Picture, Music Recording & Electronic Game Industries: A Federal Trade Commission Report to Congress [PDF]

Statement of Chairman Leibowitz [PDF]

April 2007
Marketing Violent Entertainment to Children: A Fifth Follow-Up Review of Industry Practices in the Motion Picture, Music Recording & Electronic Game Industries: A Federal Trade Commission Report to Congress [PDF]

July 2004
Marketing Violent Entertainment To Children: A Fourth Follow-Up Review of Industry Practices in the Motion Picture, Music Recording & Electronic Game Industries
A Report to Congress [PDF]

June 2002
Marketing Violent Entertainment To Children: A Twenty-One Month Follow-Up Review of Industry Practices in the Motion Picture, Music Recording & Electronic Game Industries
A Report to Congress [PDF]

Concurring Statement of Commissioner Swindle [HTML]
December 2001
Marketing Violent Entertainment To Children: A One-Year Follow-Up Review of Industry Practices in the Motion Picture, Music Recording & Electronic Game Industries
A Report to Congress [PDF]
Concurring Statement of Commissioner Swindle [HTML]
April 2001
Marketing Violent Entertainment To Children: A Six Month Follow-Up Review of Industry Practices in the Motion Picture, Music Recording & Electronic Game Industries
A Report to Congress [PDF]

September 2000
Marketing Violent Entertainment To Children: A Review of Self-Regulation and Industry Practices in the Motion Picture, Music Recording & Electronic Game Industries
A Report of the Federal Trade Commission [PDF]
Appendices A-K [PDF]


Testimony

June 14, 2006
FTC Testifies on Marketing of Violent and Explicit Video Games [HTML]

April 9, 2003
The Federal Trade Commission's FY 2004 Appropriation Request
Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission, presented by Chairman Timothy Muris before the Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the Judiciary and Related Agencies of the Committee on Appropriations, United States House of Representatives
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Marketing to Children Excerpt [HTML]

October 1, 2002
Marketing Violent Entertainment to Children: Self-Regulation and Industry Practices in the Motion Picture, Music Recording, and Electronic Game Industries
Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission, presented by Lee Peeler, Deputy Director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection, before the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, United States House of Representatives
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