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Scrabbling for Legal Rationalism: No Copyright for Games
Wendy Seltzer: April 8, 2008

http://wendy.seltzer.org/blog/archives/2008/04/08/scrabbling-for-legal-rationalism-no-copyright-for-games.html

RealNetworks has introduced an “authorized” version of “Scrabble by Mattel” to Facebook, in an effort to compete with the enormously popular Scrabulous. CNet is puzzled, in part because the “official” app is unavailable in the United States or Canada…In January, BBC and others reported that the Scrabulous team and Facebook had received takedown demands from Hasbro and Mattel (the two companies divide worldwide rights to the Scrabble trademark). Months later, however, Scrabulous remains online, probably because the threats’ legal merits are murky: there are few rights to “a game” as such.