Washington, D.C.— Future of Music Coalition (FMC), a national non-profit research, education and advocacy organization for musicians, commends today’s Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association, which invalidates a California statute prohibiting the sale or rental of violent video games to minors.
Media Access Project (MAP) filed an amici curiaebrief on behalf of arts organizations Future of Music Coalition, the National Association of Media Arts and Culture and Fractured Atlas. The brief argued that the broadly-defined California law was too vague and would have caused economic and expressive harm to independent creators.
The following statement can be attributed to FMC Deputy Director Casey Rae-Hunter: read more