Does First Amendment protect augmented reality games like Pokémon Go? Suit raises the issue
Milwaukee County counters that “Texas Rope ’Em” isn’t entitled to First Amendment protection because it doesn’t convey any messages or ideas, the dismissal motion (PDF) says. The game “has no plot, no storylines, no characters and no dialogue,” the county argues.
Nor is there any federal court decision extending First Amendment protection to augmented reality games, the dismissal motion says.
Candy Lab’s complaint is full of ad hominem attacks on Milwaukee County and colorful allegations about all the ways in which the new ordinance violates its First Amendment rights,” the dismissal motion says. “But Candy Lab forgets one thing. There can be no First Amendment violation where there is no First Amendment right.”
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The flash mobs arising from Pokémon Go have turned out to be a singular phenomenon. According to a ComScore report, the number of daily average users of Pokémon Go in the US went from 28.5 million in mid-July, 2016 to about 5 million by the end of the year.
See this related story here: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/06/07/permits_for_augmented_reality_games/