Battleship and the Choppy Waters of Public Domain
Far more intricate than the script of Battleship, exploding today on screens across America after an earlier international start, is the matter of how the source board game came to be.
When people this weekend Google – “Who invented Battleship?” – they’re likely to get a lot of search returns featuring the name Clifford Von Wickler. But a little further research suggests that like President Obama’s Kenyan birth certificate, this starting point may be entirely bogus.
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