On the tiles
Jan 17th, 2008 by handolio
This is serious. Hasbro and Mattel, who make the Scrabble board game, have asked Facebook to remove Scrabulous.
I must admit that I was puzzled by the legal status of the game when Charlie and I first descended into addiction. I wondered if the copyright had expired, or whether the Scrabulous coders had come to some kind of arrangement, and if not, for exactly how long they could go on blatantly ripping off the game and its format.
Well, now we know the answer: if Scrabble’s patents apply to electronic media, I guess that the Agarwalla brothers are screwed.
On the plus side, at least it’s worth 13 points.
Screwed is a bingo, so it’s actually worth 63.
Smug Charlie
p.s. if they scrap the Scrab I may blub.
Good point.
Still, they should know better than to mess with a bunch of loafers like us. The Save Scrabulous group has grown by about 1/4 (just inserted image above in post, 21 Jan). Although I’m never sure exactly what time-frame Facebook works to when it comes to the group updates.