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Hasbro Using DMCA on Facebook Game Apps

Posted by Zonk on from the bit-of-overkill-dont-you-think dept.

Boggle Addict writes "Rather than participating in the online gaming market, Hasbro is suppressing it with litigation. Scrabulous, a Scrabble imitation, is already fighting to prevent being shut down. Today, Hasbro sent out DMCA notices to other apps on Facebook, including Bogglific, a Boggle imitation. Copyright law has has always held very limited protections for games. This may be opening a can of worms for Hasbro.

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  1. Re:Sounds like... by RaceCarDriver · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    More power to Hasbro. That game is a blatant ripoff of Scrabble. It looks like all they did was use a different game. Lame

  2. Re:Not Copyright, Not DMCA, Trademarks by stubear · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    One could reasonably assume that Scrabulous is associated with Scrabble, perhaps an internet version of the game. Should they find Scrabulous lacking in anyway they could associate this poor quality with Scrabble as well, thus harming the trademark. The test isn't to set two boxes side by side and try to pick which one is the original, there are nuances that need to be considered and apparently you are either too stupid to do so or purposefully ignoring them which just makes you an ass.