Overview
Our rating system allows people to filter material according to their beliefs
or circumstances; and, to allow parents to protect their childern from content they deem harmful.
Publishers failing to rate their material accordingly, or abusing our rating system, will have their account suspended and royalties confiscated.
Audio Content
Audio containing explicit lyrics, including explicit depictions of violence and sex is
considered adult material and must be marked as so.
Video Content
Publishers must use the guide below to establish a rating for all video products they publish.
The right-hand side contains content descriptions, the left, associated ratings.
| |
| | Nudity and Sexual Material | Rating |
| | None | G |
| | Passionate Kissing | PG |
| | Obscured or Implied Sexual Acts | PG-13 |
| | Visible Sexual Touching | R |
| | Bare Buttocks | R |
| | Female Breasts | R |
| | Genitalia | X |
| | Explicit Sexual Acts | X |
| |
| | Violence | |
| | None | G |
| | Deliberate Damage to Objects | PG |
| | Deliberate Injury to Fantasy Characters (including animation) | PG-13 |
| | Deliberate Injury to Animals | PG-13 |
| | Deliberate Injury to Human beings | PG-13 |
| | Killing of Fantasy Characters (including animation) | PG-13 |
| | Killing of Animals | R |
| | Killing of Human Beings | R |
| | Blood and Gore, fantasy characters (including animation) | R |
| | Blood and Gore, Animals | NC-17 |
| | Blood and Gore, Human Beings | NC-17 |
| | Sexual violence | X |
| |
| | Language | |
| | None | G |
| | Mild expletives | PG |
| | Profanity | PG-13 |
| | Explicit Sexual Language | R |
| |
| | Other | |
| | Tobacco Use | PG-13 |
| | Alcohol Use | PG-13 |
| | Drug Use | R |
| | Gambling | R |
| | Weapon Use | R |
| | Discrimination or Harm Against People | R |
Image Content
Images containing/showing/implying any of the following will be considered adult material and must be marked as so.
| |
| | Genitalia |
| | Explicit Sexual Acts |
| | Death/Dying/Killing/Blood and Gore of Animals |
| | Death/Dying/Killing/Blood and Gore of Human Beings |
| | Sexual violence |
| | Written Profanity |
| | Written Explicit Sexual Language |
| | Drug Use |
Document Content
Documents containing explicit depictions of violence or sex is considered adult material and must be marked as so.
Software Content
Software products providing access to network gambling or viewing violent, sexual content is considered adult material and must be marked as so.
Other kinds of Content
Any content containing explicit depictions of violence or sex is considered adult material and must be marked as so.
We make exceptions for political and/or culturally significant material. We will determine what is
political and/or culturally significant.
We may suspend the sale of any product at any time.
|
|