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Takedown Letters For WP7 Tetris Clones

Posted by Soulskill on from the at-least-they're-consistent dept.

karios writes "Today I received a takedown letter from a law firm representing the Tetris Company for copyright violations involving my game Tetrada, which I published on the Windows Phone 7 marketplace. The witch hunt, after hitting Android, iOS and other platforms, continues on Windows Phone 7. It's a pity, since some of the tetromino games in the Marketplace were pretty decent."

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  1. Re:WTF? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Since when game rules are copyrightable?

    This is not the word you're looking for *hand wave*
    This is a pretty clear trademark issue.

    Even if it wasn't a trademark issue, just going to the tetris Wiki page reveals it to be "owned" by a very litigious company.

    I'm starting to wonder if the people making these clones have a business plan which goes something like this:
    1) Copy someone's "here's how to make tetris" sample code (there's countless samples out there)
    2) Post the game to the latest appstore
    3) Wait for takedown notice
    4) Put up a "donation" page to "provide for legal defense"
    5) Whine about takedown notice too all the geek-friendly websites
    6) Profit!