Copyright:
Copyright is a legal right created by the law of a country, that grants the creator of an original work exclusive rights to its use and distribution, usually for a limited time, with the intention of enabling the creator (e.g. the photographer of a photograph or the author of a book) to receive compensation for their intellectual effort.
Copyright is a form of intellectual property, applicable to any expressed representation of a creative work. It is often shared among multiple authors, each of whom holds a set of rights to use or license the work, and who are commonly referred to as rights holders. These rights frequently include reproduction, control over derivative works, distribution,public performance, and "moral rights" such as attribution.
Copyrighted material is identified by this symbol. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright)
For example, the Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 is owned by Activision and Infinity Ward, so no other company has right to use the name for their own game.
Trademark:
A trademark is a recognizable sign, design or expression which identifies products or services of a particular source from those of others.The trademark owner can be an individual, business organization, or any legal entity. A trademark may be located on a package, a label, a voucher or on the product itself. For the sake of corporate identity trademarks are also being displayed on company buildings.
Patents:
A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a sovereign state to an inventor or assignee for a limited period of time in exchange for detailed public disclosure of an invention. An invention is a solution to a specific technological problem and is a product or a process.
Registered Designs:
A registered design is protection given to the outward appearance of a product or part of product.
Violence:
Violence is behavior involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something. This is used alot in video games, with many games involving physical violence such as fist fights and using weapons like baseball bats to kill others, to guns used to kill people.
Rating:
A video game content rating system is a system used for the classification of video games into suitability-related groups. Most of these systems are associated with and/or sponsored by a government, and are sometimes part of the local motion picture rating system.
Education:
Education in its general sense is a form of learning in which the knowledge, skills, values, beliefs and habits of a group of people are transferred from one generation to the next through storytelling, discussion, teaching, training, and or research. Education may also include informal transmission of such information from one human being to another.
Stereotyping:
Stereotyping is where you make assumptions about someone usually from first impressions some examples are: A man acts a little feminine, or speaks in a certain tone so he might be stereotyped as a homosexual or someone who dresses in dark clothes has black hair and seems down all the time they might be stereotyped as Emo.
Addiction:
A state characterized by compulsive engagement in rewarding stimuli, despite adverse consequences. If you are addicted to something, you cannot get enough of it so you just want more.
