Regulation
The law and the regulators: licensing regimes, the 2005 Gambling Act and the Gambling Commission, the state-by-state American legalisation that followed the fall of PASPA, and the rulings on game mechanics.
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- - Valsspelende kaartspelers PK-T-3693, PK-T-2481. Ator: Baburen, Dirck van (ca. 1595-1624) PK-T-3693 Language: No linguistic content Country: No place, unknown, or undetermined Published: 17e eeuw Persistent URL: Published (digital): Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden, Extent: elektronische bron.
- - Kaartspelers met een pijprokende vrouw. Twee staande kaartspelers en een zittende pijprokende vrouw.
- - Seconde chambre des Appartements, 1694, Versailles. Sat L-R; Dowager Princess of Conti, The Dauphin, the Duke of Bourbon, Madame la Duchesse and the Maréchal-duc de Vendôme, Versailles 1694.
- - Covent Garden Gaming Table. Description to follow. Engraver's name erased, plate altered and publication line added. Etching and.
- - Damn Mambrino. Satire on betting on horses: a fat man seated in a chair looks angrily to right, a dog sits beside him. c.1779 Etching and drypoint.
- - CHINESE GAMBLERS with Fighting Quails. Drawing by William Alexander, draughtsman of the Macartney Embassy to China in 1793. Chinese gamblers with fighting quails. The figure smoking a pipe, holds in his hand some Chinese money threaded on a string; the man with a feather behind his cap is betting with him. Image.
- - Soldiers Playing Cards. Germany, 1814 Six Military Subjects (Vienna, 1814) Prints; etchings Etching Gift of Mrs. Irene Salinger in memory of her father, Adolph Stern (54.89.86) Prints and Drawings.
- - Advertisement, Bonne-Double Bierre, 1825 35. Two figures, sitting on benches, playing cards on a barrel, to the left sits a full basket, to the right sits a black jug releasing smoke.
- - Monte in the Mines. J. D. Borthwick, an Englishman searching for his fortune in the Gold Rush, came to California in 1851. He observed the wild and chaotic life of the era, and portrayed the gambling element of it in several of the lithographs illustrating his narrative.
- - Camille Pissarro 2012 003. Jugadores de Naipes en Galipan. 1854. Dibujo grafito sobre papel. Banco Central de Venezuela.
- - Norske Folkelivsbilleder - no-nb digibok -27. Illustrasjon hentet fra boken Norske Folkelivsbilleder av Tidemand, Adolph og utgitt av Chr. Tønsberg (Christiania, 1858).
- - Joueurs de west (3rd state) ( prn cd13 185). A regulator building where licences are issued.
- - 2 illus.)- 1. Across the continent, on the Pacific Railroad - gamblers and. Gambling-table in the street at Promontory Point; 2. Across the continent, on the Pacific Railroad - gambling houses at Promontory Point Ogden, Utah when it was still called Promontory Point. Reference; page 134 2 prints: wood.
- - The Heathen Chinee - Currier & Ives c. The "Heathen Chinee", hand-colored lithograph illustrating Bret Harte's 1870 narrative poem satirizing anti-Chinese sentiment in northern California.
- - Nevada Gambling License 1880. A photograph of a gambling license issued by State of Nevada, County of Storey in 1880.
- - Stahl-Bayard-1881-Les Quatres Peurs de notre Général-01. Illustration tirée de l'ouvrage de P.-J. Stahl, Les quatre peurs de notre général: Souvenirs d’enfance et de jeunesse, Paris: Bibliothèque d’Éducation et de Récréation (éd. J. Hetzel Cie), s. d. (vers 1881).
- - New York by sunlight and gaslight - a work descriptive of the great American. Gaming equipment seized and held as evidence.
- - HearnStMaloHarpers1883. Views of Saint Malo, Louisiana, 1883, with portraits of vistors Lafcadio Hearn and Charles E. Whitney. The Lacustrine village of Saint Malo, Louisiana. 1. Charles E. Whitney; 2. An (outdoor) oven; 3. Lafcadio Hearn; 4. A vegetable garden (on pier); 5. Gambling on Saint Malo.
- - Fan-Tan in New York City 1887. "New York scenes in a Chinese gambling-house. (1) A game of Fan-Tan in progress. (2) A raid by the police. [Top right:] Playing cards and Chinese coins used in Fan-Tan." Wood engravings in "Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper",. 1683, 17 December 1887.
- - New York scenes in a Chinese gambling-house - 1. A game of "Fan-Tan" in progress; 2.. A raid by the police. Small drawing of Chinese playing cards and of Chinese coin used in Fan-Tan.
- - Partie perdue, d'après Meissonier. Title from H. Béraldi, Les graveurs du XIXe siècle, v. 3, supplément. Citation/Reference: B793[proof].
- - Delsarte recitation book and directory. A statute page setting out the terms for lawful play.
- - Pee (Chinese-Thai gambling tokens) - Gustaaf Schlengen (c. 1890) 01. An illustration of Sino-Thai porcelain gambling token coins by Gustaaf Schlegel.
- - Arbuckle Bros. Persistent URL: digital.lib.muohio.edu/u?/tradecards,4151 Subject (TGM): Coffee industry; Musical instruments; Stringed instruments; Clowns; Cards; Animals; Donkeys; Costumes; Message: Keywords.
- - Phoebe. Dealer's stamp. Schick, propr., 962-3rd Ave. bet. 57th 58th Sts. N.Y. Descriptive subtitle. Le Mack; music by Andrew Mack.
- - Those lost happy days. Cover includes 2 reproductions of paintings, one captioned "Leaving home" showing a young man leaving his family, and the other captioned "The arrest" showing the young man being arrested by a policeman in a gambling den....as sung by the great Helene Mora. Forename of former owner. Feist.
- - Mexican gamblers playing dice. Men gambling and playing dice games in New Mexico. Original photograph can be found at the University of New Mexico Digital Collections.
- - Crappy Dan de spo'tin' man. A notice prohibiting gaming on the premises.
- - Handicap (or, The handicap march). Describes horse racing and social events surrounding it.; music by George Rosey.
- - Annual report of the Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests of the State of New. An inspection of licensed gaming premises.
- - Seben come leben. 1902-1903. Transitioned to full-size illustration, when postal regulations permitted address and message together on reverse.
- - Take me back, babe. Descriptive subtitle: Symphony de Coon. Barrett McMahon.
- - The Pergola Casino, Fort Wm. Henry Hotel, Lake George, N. Y. Continued the 14000 series. 70000 series issued with large gaps in numbering, may account for some unnumbered cards.
- - Soapy Smith 1898c. Jefferson "Soapy" Smith standing at bar in saloon in Skagway, Alaska. July 1898.
- - After what he done to me- a coon rhapsody. Cover design includes photograph of Nellie Smith Ravell in portrait A. Northrup.
- - Bring your money home. Cover photograph of Clarice Vance. Musical supplement of Hearst's Chicago American, Sep. 23, 1900.. Miller.
- - I don't want no Jonah hangin' round. Cover illustration features an African American man sitting on a beach watching a whale swim in the ocean. In the center of the illustration of the whale is a small photograph of Vevie Nobriga [?].
- - I'm always glad to see you when you'll buy. " Cover illustration features caricature of an African American couple, dressed nicely, with woman looking down at the man who is shorter.. Totten Smith; music by A.B. Sloane.
- - An Overview of the Upcoming Changes in UK Gaming Licensing & Tax Regulation. A long briefing on the proposed shift in British gambling regulation from licensing at the point of supply to licensing at the point of consumption. The speakers work through what it would mean for operators based offshore to require a Gambling Commission licence to take bets from customers in Britain, and the tax consequences that would follow.
- - Tmartn and Syndicate Unpunished for CSGOLotto? Guy Trades Up to $7,500 Blue Gem. News coverage of the settlement reached between the Federal Trade Commission and the owners of CSGO Lotto, setting out what the agreement required of them over their undisclosed promotion of the site, alongside a segment on a high-value trade-up.
- - SBFC224 Belgium denounces loot boxes as gambling. Discussion of the Belgian Gaming Commission's 2017 statement that certain paid randomised boxes met the country's definition of a game of chance, and of what compliance would require from publishers selling into that market.
- - 5 More US States Join the Fight Against Loot Boxes. Round-up of state level legislative activity in the United States in late 2017, as legislators in several states floated bills or announced inquiries into whether randomised in-game boxes sold to minors fall under existing gambling statutes.
- - Tom Watson Comments on Gambling Terminals | Good Morning Britain. A breakfast television interview with Tom Watson MP about fixed odds betting terminals and the maximum stake permitted on them. He sets out the position he wants government to adopt and is pressed on the effect a lower limit would have on betting shops.
- - Major sports leagues react to Supreme Court decision on sports gambling. Reaction from the NCAA, MLB, NFL and NBA on the day the US Supreme Court decided Murphy v NCAA, 14 May 2018. A legal reporter explains that the Court struck down the 1992 federal statute PASPA on anticommandeering grounds, leaving each state free to decide the question for itself rather than making sports betting lawful nationwide.
- - Gambling Commission and National Crime Agency (NCA) - Submitting Better Quality SARs Video 3 of 5. Instructional material produced jointly by the Gambling Commission and the National Crime Agency on how licensed operators should draft suspicious activity reports under money laundering reporting duties. It covers what information a report must contain and the common defects that make a submission unusable to the NCA.
- - Gambling Commission and National Crime Agency (NCA) - Submitting Better Quality SARs Video 4 of 5. The fourth part of a joint regulator and law enforcement training series on money laundering reporting by gambling licensees. It deals with requests for a defence against money laundering charges and the timescales operators must observe once a report is filed.
- - Rising Star Casino opens sports betting. Local coverage of an Indiana riverboat casino opening a licensed sportsbook, one of a sequence of venues taking legal sports wagers after the state authorised it. The report covers the counter, the launch timing and what the operator offered on day one.
- - The UK needs a new Gambling Act. A very short parliamentary statement arguing that the Gambling Act 2005 predates smartphone betting and no longer matches the products on the market, and calling for replacement legislation rather than amendment. The case is put in under a minute with no counter-argument presented.
- - Cowardly ESRB Adds Lame Loot Box Warning - Inside Gaming Daily. The Entertainment Software Rating Board introduced an "in-game purchases (includes random items)" interactive element label, disclosing on the box that a title sells randomised rewards. Commentary weighs how much a purchaser actually learns from the wording.
- - Apple Lawsuit Could End Loot Boxes - Inside Gaming Daily. Report on a class action filed in a California federal court alleging that Apple profited from games distributed through its store that sell randomised boxes. The suit concerned the platform's cut rather than any individual publisher, and the claims were untested at filing.
- - States fast-track sports betting bills as they look for new revenue. A business news report on US state legislatures moving sports betting bills through faster in 2020 while facing pandemic budget shortfalls. It treats legalisation as a revenue question for individual states, which is where the matter sat after the federal bar was removed.
- - Rightlander Q and A: Marketing compliance and the role it plays towards greater regulation. Conversation between a marketing compliance vendor and a gambling compliance journalist on how non-compliant promotional material, much of it produced by third party affiliates rather than operators, has featured in regulatory enforcement action against licensed betting companies.
- - Sweden and UK: case studies of gambling over-regulation | World's Gaming Festival. Operators and consultants at a gaming trade festival argue that European licensing conditions have tightened too far, taking Sweden's 2019 re-regulation and the deposit and bonus caps introduced there as their principal example, with Britain as a second case. The speakers put an industry case and no regulator appears to answer it.
- - DCMS to review Gambling Act next week. A short news bulletin reporting that the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport was about to publish the terms of reference for its review of the Gambling Act 2005. The item frames it as the opening of a review process rather than any change to the statute itself.
- - Unpicking the Terms of The UK Gambling Act Review. A webinar examining the published terms of reference for the British government's review of the Gambling Act 2005, held shortly after they were announced. The panel works through which parts of the 2005 framework the review had put in scope and which it had left out.
- - Gambling Commission Corporate Strategy: 2021-2024. The Gambling Commission presents its corporate strategy for 2021 to 2024 and the accompanying business plan. The regulator describes its stated priorities for the period, including what it calls making gambling safer, and how it intends to organise its work against them.
- - Why Gambling Commission issues licenses to offshores?. A short clip built around archive BBC political footage, posing the question of why British-owned operators registered in offshore jurisdictions hold Gambling Commission licences. It touches on the point-of-consumption arrangement under which any operator taking bets from customers in Britain needs a Commission licence wherever it is based.
- - australia plans to ban loot boxes no loot boxes down under. Coverage of an Australian proposal to route games containing paid randomised boxes into a restricted classification category, which would place the mechanic on the rating label. The measure was a proposal at the time of reporting, not enacted law.
- - Andrew Rhodes, Gambling Commission. The Gambling Commission's chief executive Andrew Rhodes speaks on the day of publication of the independent report into the collapse of BetIndex, operator of the Football Index product. He addresses the findings directed at the regulator and what the Commission proposed to do in response.
- - Is the UK Gambling Commission Incompetent? APCW Perspectives for 24 September 2021. A commentary programme covering the opening of an All-Party Parliamentary Group inquiry into the effectiveness of the Gambling Commission itself. The presenters run through the questions the group said it would examine; a parliamentary group can report and recommend, it cannot direct the regulator.
- - A Safer Bet: A conservative approach to gambling regulation | #ThinkTent2021. A think tank panel recorded while the government was drawing up its white paper following the review of the Gambling Act 2005. The speakers discuss a paper published by the Institute of Economic Affairs arguing against several of the measures then under consideration, including affordability checks and stake limits.
- - Gambling Commission Compliance and Enforcement Report 2020-2021. A summary of the Gambling Commission's compliance and enforcement report covering the 2020 to 2021 financial year. It describes the casework the regulator conducted against licence holders over the period and the areas where it said operators needed to improve.
- - FanDuel CEO on mobile sports betting in New York. An interview with the chief executive of FanDuel recorded as mobile sports betting went live in New York State under its newly enacted licensing regime. The discussion covers the tax rate the state set on operators and how that shapes the market entry.
- - UK Regulatory Compliance & Enforcement: APCW Perspectives for 14 January 2022. Discussion of public remarks by the Gambling Commission's interim chief executive warning licence holders about their compliance obligations. The programme reviews recent regulator casework and what the Commission said it expected operators to change.
- - LEAKED MP's Report Blasts Regulator!. Coverage of a draft All-Party Parliamentary Group report, reported by the Racing Post before publication, that criticises the Gambling Commission over what it calls persistent failings and sets out recommendations. Nothing in the document binds the regulator, and at this point it had not been formally published.
- - STEALING £15M to Fund Gambling: Freddy David. An account of Freddy David, a financial adviser who was convicted of fraud in 2018 after taking around GBP 14.5 million from his clients over several years, and who has spoken publicly about his own gambling. The case is used to look at how the money moved through licensed operators and what their anti-money-laundering duties required of them.
- - Reform gambling rally video. Footage from a rally held at Westminster in January 2022 by Peers for Gambling Reform and the Gambling Related Harm All-Party Parliamentary Group, staged ahead of the outcome of the government's review of the Gambling Act 2005. Speakers set out the changes to the statute they wanted to see.
- - Will Play to Earn Games Remain Legal? - Extra Credits Video Games. An assessment of the legal position of blockchain games offering open marketplaces for acquiring and reselling virtual items, covering money-laundering exposure, crypto-linked scams and the retention problems the model produced.
- - Gambling Commission - Onboarding new colleagues. An internal recruitment film in which Gambling Commission staff describe how new colleagues join the organisation, the teams they are placed in and the training given. It is a rare view of the regulator as an employer rather than through its casework.
- - Creative Compliance Audit. Walkthrough of a creative compliance audit against the Committee of Advertising Practice and Broadcast Committee of Advertising Practice rules covering gambling and lottery adverts, and how the shift away from the older "particular appeal" test changes what imagery, talent and tone a marketing team may use.
- - How the UK Got Hooked on Online Gambling. A news feature on Britain as the largest regulated online gambling market, built around reporting on the sums staked and lost through licensed online casino and betting products. It sets that scale against the review of the regulatory framework then under way.
- - Regulation & Record Enforcement Action - Stringent AML Compliance in the Gambling Sector - Webinar. A preview of a legal training webinar on anti-money-laundering duties in the gambling sector, pitched at practitioners advising licence holders. It summarises the reporting and customer due diligence obligations the sessions cover, and the enforcement activity the Gambling Commission had taken against operators for failures in that area.
- - Untangling the Gambling Act review. A conference interview with a gambling lawyer on what the long-delayed review of the Gambling Act 2005 was expected to contain, recorded before the white paper appeared. She separates what government had actually signalled from what the trade press had speculated, and notes that any change would arrive through consultation and secondary legislation rather than at once.
- - Gambling Act Review White Paper update. The Gambling Commission's chief executive responds on the day the government published its white paper following the review of the Gambling Act 2005. He identifies the measures the white paper assigned to the regulator to consult on and take forward.
- - New curbs on online slot machines for young gamblers in the government’s gambling white paper. A news report on the British government's gambling white paper, focusing on the proposed maximum stake for online slot games and a lower figure proposed for younger players. The report is clear that these were consultation proposals rather than rules in force.
- - Government proposes gambling reform: 'There is a real issue with it in the country'. A studio discussion of the gambling white paper published in April 2023, covering affordability checks, a statutory levy on operators and the proposed ombudsman. Contributors disagree over how far the package goes and how long implementation would take.
- - The Repeal of PASPA: How the Supreme Court's 2018 Ruling Changed Sports Betting Forever. A retrospective discussion of Murphy v NCAA, decided 14 May 2018, in which the Supreme Court struck down the 1992 federal statute PASPA on anticommandeering grounds in a case brought by New Jersey. The speakers note that the decision removed the federal bar and left legalisation to each state rather than legalising sports betting nationally.
- - The UK Gambling Commission Charges MP Williams in Election Betting Scandal. A news item reporting that the Gambling Commission had brought charges against a group of individuals, among them a former MP and a former police officer, over bets placed on the timing of the 2024 general election. The allegation is cheating through use of confidential information; at this point the matter is a charge awaiting trial, not a determination of guilt.
- - Series 1 Episode 3 (Part 1) Building the bigger picture with Research and Statistics. The Gambling Commission's research and statistics leads discuss how the regulator gathers data on gambling participation in Great Britain and how the methodology behind its survey work changed. They explain what the resulting figures can and cannot support.
- - Gambling Act 2005: Regulating Fair Play in the UK Betting Industry. An explainer on the structure of the Gambling Act 2005, which received Royal Assent on 7 April 2005, took effect in its main provisions on 1 September 2007 and created the Gambling Commission. It walks through the licensing regime, the three licensing objectives and the division of duties between the Commission and local licensing authorities.
- - Ep 565 The Gambling Act White Paper - Are Proposals Already Outdated. A podcast episode recorded as the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Gambling Reform launched a fresh inquiry, asking whether the 2023 white paper proposals had been overtaken by changes in the market. The hosts distinguish between the measures already implemented and those still at consultation stage, and note that an APPG inquiry produces recommendations rather than law.
- - UK High Streets Are Being Taken Over by Gambling Shops. A report on the number of betting shops and adult gaming centres on British high streets and the limits local authorities face when refusing premises licences. It covers the campaign by Labour MP Dawn Butler for stronger local powers, which would require a change to the Gambling Act 2005 rather than a decision by any council.
- - Murphy v NCAA, 2018, Constitutional Law - Sport Law - Gambling. A constitutional law walkthrough of Murphy v NCAA, decided 14 May 2018, explaining the anticommandeering doctrine the Court relied on to strike down the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992. The point made is that Congress may regulate sports betting directly but may not order state legislatures to keep a prohibition of their own on the books.
- - Massive Valve Gambling Lawsuit. A read-through of the filing against Valve over randomised case sales, going through the allegations made about how the case system operates and how it connects to the third-party sites that accept the items as stakes.
- - VALVE SUED BECAUSE OF CS2 CASES (THIS IS REALLY BAD). Discussion of legal action brought against Valve over its paid randomised case system in Counter-Strike 2, covering what the claim alleges about the mechanic and what a ruling against the company could mean for the item economy.
- - VALVE IS BEING SUED TO BAN CASES | TDM_Heyzeus. A walkthrough of the New York action against Valve seeking to stop the sale of randomised cases in Counter-Strike 2, setting out the legal argument advanced and the parts of the item system it targets.
- - Sweeping reforms tighten restrictions on gambling ads | 9 News Australia. An Australian news report on federal government measures announced to restrict gambling advertising. It sets out the limits the government said it would impose and the broadcast and online placements they would cover.
- - Government accused of creating carve-outs for online gambling ads in new laws | 7.30. A current affairs report comparing the gambling advertising legislation the Australian federal government introduced with the total advertising ban recommended three years earlier by a parliamentary committee report led by the late MP Peta Murphy. Critics interviewed argue the bill contains exemptions for online advertising; the government's position is put alongside them.
- - 15 Things China Banned That the West Still Allows. Survey of Chinese regulations with no equivalent in the United States or Europe, including the requirement that publishers disclose the probability of each randomised in-game reward and the limits placed on how many hours a minor may play.
- - Gibraltar-based QuinnBet to pay £609,000 over gambling failures. A news item on the outcome of a Gambling Commission investigation into QuinnBet (Gibraltar) Limited, operator of quinnbet.com, which identified anti-money-laundering and social responsibility failures. The company is to make a payment of £609,104, described in the report as part of a regulatory settlement rather than a financial penalty imposed under the Act.