Hasbro has Scrabulous removed from Facebook
Posted July 30th, 2008 by admin
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Scrabble, the well-known word game we are all familiar with, has had its counterpart Scrabulous withdrawn from the United States and Canadian sites of Facebook due to a lawsuit filed by Hasbro.
The Agarwalla brothers, Jayant and Rajat, along with their company RJ Softwares, pulled Scrabulous because Hasbro concluded that it risked taking away from the original Scrabble game.
The original scrabble game is available in an online version on Facebook, but now anyone who is has a U.S. or Canadian membership profile receives a message indicating that until further notice the game has been deactivated. For members who receive this report there is a "stay informed" link that will lead them to an email with current updates on the situation. The lawsuit was filed in New York and opined that the software company encroached on the games "intellectual" property.
Essentially, the lawsuit appears to say that the game Scrabulous takes the integral elements of the original game and apply it to itself. The fact that the two words, Scrabulous and Scrabble, are so similar might confuse potential players. Lastly, their is a statement that implies that Scrabulous is not really different from Scrabble and that the two brothers actually copied the game.
Mattel, who owns the rights to Scrabble in over a hundread countries, is looking to have the online game eliminated.
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