Facebook Yanking Scrabulous?
Just by writing this, we know we’re going to make our Facebook-using readers despondent.
Mattel, owners of the rights to Scrabble outside of the US and Canada, have sent Facebook a letter demanding that Scrabulous be discontinued. Mattel alleges the game, which is essentially a fan tribute to Scrabble, infringes on their intellectual property:
The U.S. and Canada rights to Scrabble are owned by Hasbro Inc, the world’s second-largest toy and game company, while the biggest, Mattel Inc , has the rest of the world.
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