Creators of Scrabulous on Facebook sued


	Creators of Scrabulous on Facebook sued

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                                        Creators of Scrabble knockoff on Facebook sued                </H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080725/ap_on_hi_te/facebook_scrabble"><P>
                        NEW YORK - T-R-O-U-B-L-E could loom for a Scrabble knockoff that has become one of the most popular activities on <A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/ap_on_hi_te/storytext/facebook_scrabble/28350525/SIG=10q6mqvc7/*http://www.facebook.com/"><SPAN id="lw_1216955489_0" class="yshortcuts">Facebook</SPAN></A>.                        
                        </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080725/ap_on_hi_te/facebook_scrabble"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.yahoo.com/img/81712909-0358-422E-BB69-9C1E51002E61" alt="Toy-makers Hasbro and Mattel have demanded that social networking website Facebook remove the online game Scrabulous due to alleged copyright infringement(AFP/File/Leon Neal)" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080725/ap_on_hi_te/facebook_scrabble"><P><SPAN id="lw_1216955489_1" class="yshortcuts">Hasbro Inc</SPAN>., the company that owns the word game's North American rights, sued the creators of the Scrabulous program on Thursday, less than two weeks after the release of an authorized version of <SPAN id="lw_1216955489_2" class="yshortcuts">Scrabble</SPAN> for Facebook.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080725/ap_on_hi_te/facebook_scrabble"><P>Hasbro said in its lawsuit that Scrabulous violates its copyright and trademarks. Separately, <SPAN id="lw_1216955489_3" class="yshortcuts">Hasbro</SPAN> asked Facebook to block the game.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080725/ap_on_hi_te/facebook_scrabble"><P>In the year since Facebook began letting outside developers write Web programs that Facebook members can plug into their personal profile pages, Scrabulous has attracted some half-million daily users, despite efforts by Scrabble's owners to end it.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080725/ap_on_hi_te/facebook_scrabble"><P>Now, Hasbro is trying to stop Scrabulous completely and collect unspecified damages.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080725/ap_on_hi_te/facebook_scrabble"><P>Facebook, which was not named as a defendant, refused to immediately block the application, pending a response from Scrabulous' creators.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/1236775E-8FCC-4D37-B5D3-09CD44CB8BB1/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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