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Facebook Shuts Down Most Scrabulous Access; Blames Complaint By Mattel - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 25 Aug 2008 07:28 PM PST

For the last few weeks, Facebook users outside the U.S. and Canada could do the superior dance between rounds of Scrabulous. Access to Scrabulous, the Scrabble knockoff developed by Indian…

Scrabulous Returns By Another Name, Will ‘Wordscraper’ Evade Hasbro? - 1 Comment
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 31 Jul 2008 01:25 AM PST

How many points do you get for the word “COMEBACK”? Just two days after Scrabble maker Hasbro succeeded in using the DCMA to take Facebook’s Scrabulous app offline, creators Jayant…

Updated: Scrabulous No Longer Available For US, Canadian Customers; Other Countries OK - 2 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Tue 29 Jul 2008 07:04 AM PST

Updated: Facebook says the decision to block Scrabulous for U.S. and Canadian users was made by the Scrabulous developers, not Facebook. The social net forwarded the DMCA notice to the…

Glaser on Scrabulous: “Silly” Split Rights For Scrabble Led To This - 3 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 28 Jul 2008 02:06 PM PST

Rob Glaser, the CEO of RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK), spoke last week at the Casual Connect conference in Seattle, just hours before Hasbro filed a lawsuit against the makers of Scrabulous,…

Hasbro Finally Sues Makers Of Scrabulous; Invokes DMCA To Get It Removed - 3 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 24 Jul 2008 11:42 AM PST

The latest turn in this saga doesn’t look so good for Scrabulous… Hasbro, the maker of Scrabble, is suing the creators of Scrabulous, the uber-popular Facebook app. In a statement,…

RealNetworks Doesn’t Buy Scrabulous; Launches Own Version Instead - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 06 Apr 2008 06:16 PM PST

RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK), which has previously professed its supposedly neutral position in the copyright controversy over the popular Facebook app Scrabulous, is now sneaking itself into the mix: it is…

Will RealNetworks End Up Buying Scrabulous? - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 02 Mar 2008 02:55 PM PST

I had the exact same thought that Om had after I read the NYT piece last night AND when RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) PR sent out a note about the story,…

Scrabble Makers Order Facebook To Take Down Scrabulous - 6 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 16 Jan 2008 04:34 PM PST

Hasbro and Mattel, the marketers of Scrabble, are accusing the creators of popular Facebook app Scrabulous of violating the copyright on the 70-year-old word game and are demanding that the…