Hasbro Inc, which owns the US and Canadian rights to Scrabble, has asked Facebook to remove its online version "Scrabulous", Reuters reports.A spokeswoman for Mattel in Britain, which owns the Scrabble rights to the rest of the world, confirmed: "Letters have been sent to Facebook in the United States regarding the Scrabulous application. Mattel values its intellectual property and actively protects its brands and trademarks."
A million tiles crying out and suddenly going blank...
Comments (3)
A Dear Abby moment, to be sure...
Posted by Elisson | January 16, 2008 10:21 AM
Posted on January 16, 2008 10:21
Noooo! I'm just starting to get ok at it!
Bah. This is so wrong. There are a million versions of online scrabble, and this is the one they go after? What about Literati? Hm? Or the one on iWin?
Gah.
Posted by Kat | January 16, 2008 12:16 PM
Posted on January 16, 2008 12:16
having worked with copyright law in the past. I knew it was only a matter of time. I would think that hasbro/mattel, would want to keep from losing their customers and possibly purchase the application and allow it be used on facebook.
Posted by eaglehawk | January 16, 2008 9:05 PM
Posted on January 16, 2008 21:05