Restored Scrabulous on return
by Magdalena Rosova
Scrabulous is back on Facebook with new name, rules and round tiles that could help its maker to skirt legal claims of the owners of Scrabble.
The return came two days after makers of Scrabulous blocked their version of word game. Hasbro Inc., the owner of Scrabble's North American right, sued the Indian brothers for Scrabulous. Now creators changed the name to Wordscraper to avoid any brand confusion with Scrabble.
Creators came with some other changes as well. For instance, Wordscraper replaced square tiles with circles and also tiles earning quadruple points have been added.
Whether design changes will help the makers avoid claims of copyright infringement remains to be seen. It depends on Whether Wordscraper feels more like Scrabble or just like a version of game based on words.
"It's going to come down to the little things like squares and circles and double, triple and so on," said Ethan Horwitz, a lawyer. "What they've done is taking a step in the right direction, but I don't think it's a big enough step."
Word of the renamed game started spreading through blogs and by Thursday thousands of Facebook users had added the application.
Haspro sued Scrabulous creators last week, claiming copyright and trademark infringement. The lawsuit followed video game creator Electronic Arts Inc.'s release of an version of Scrabble under a licensing deal with Hasbro.
Furthermore Facebook was asked to block Scrabulous, what the site refused to do though it means a risk of losing immunity protection from copyright lawsuit.
related story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7191264.stm
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posted by Lucia Adamova
The return came two days after makers of Scrabulous blocked their version of word game. Hasbro Inc., the owner of Scrabble's North American right, sued the Indian brothers for Scrabulous. Now creators changed the name to Wordscraper to avoid any brand confusion with Scrabble.
Creators came with some other changes as well. For instance, Wordscraper replaced square tiles with circles and also tiles earning quadruple points have been added.
Whether design changes will help the makers avoid claims of copyright infringement remains to be seen. It depends on Whether Wordscraper feels more like Scrabble or just like a version of game based on words.
"It's going to come down to the little things like squares and circles and double, triple and so on," said Ethan Horwitz, a lawyer. "What they've done is taking a step in the right direction, but I don't think it's a big enough step."
Word of the renamed game started spreading through blogs and by Thursday thousands of Facebook users had added the application.
Haspro sued Scrabulous creators last week, claiming copyright and trademark infringement. The lawsuit followed video game creator Electronic Arts Inc.'s release of an version of Scrabble under a licensing deal with Hasbro.
Furthermore Facebook was asked to block Scrabulous, what the site refused to do though it means a risk of losing immunity protection from copyright lawsuit.
related story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7191264.stm
| by Magdalena Rosova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv) |
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posted by Lucia Adamova
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