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WILL YOU BE OUR FRIEND?

By Chris Bennett, Tudor Carsten, Michael R. Coburn, Sarah Dale-Harris, Pablo Guzman, Danielle (Dani) Lemon, Chris Metcalfe and David Spratley

Hasbro, the owner of the board game SCRABBLE, has sued Facebook for copyright infringement, claiming that the Scrabulous game on Facebook violates Hasbro's copyright in SCRABBLE. Hasbro is keen to protect its IP in the electronic frontier, especially since Hasbro signed an agreement last year with EA to create electronic versions of its board games including Scrabble. More on that story here.

In a slightly related story (actually, only related in the sense that it also involves Facebook), we have heard your overwhelming demand, caved to the pressure, and created a VideoGameLawBlog fan group on Facebook (here's the link) so that now all four of you out there can publicly and proudly show your support for our blog. Sheesh, what next'-- paparazzi?

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Full post as published by Video Game Law Blog on January 16, 2008 (boomark / email).