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• With all due respect, the consummer' cannot trust anything that the 'Hasbeen' (EA)company tells us. As they pull the plug on our games with family and friends around the world, they have not in any way proven their case against the developers of Scrabulous. Hasbro did not invent Scrabble. I understand it was invented by Alfred Butts in the 1930s.
  
  The following is a direct quote from US Copyright Office FL-108.
  "The idea for a game is not protected by copyright. The same is true of the name or title given to the game and of the method or methods for playing it.
  
  Copyright protects only the particular manner of an author?s expression in literary, artistic, or musical form. Copyright protection does not extend to any idea, system, method, device, or trademark material involved in the development, merchandising, or playing of a game. Once a game has been made public, nothing in the copyright law prevents others from developing another game based on similar principles." In reply to: "EA: Hack took Facebook 'Scrabble' down"

  July 30, 2008

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