Media News - Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Fans fight for Scrabulous future
The threat to the hugely popular Scrabulous game has galvanised Facebook members into mounting a vigorous defence campaign. In little more than a day more than 13,000 people have signed up to a Save Scrabulous group on Facebook. Many have signed a petition asking Mattel and Hasbro to back down from their threat to have the game removed. Others have bombarded the two toy makers with letters, e-mails and calls asking them to preserve the game. The joint owners of Scrabble, Mattel and Hasbro, launched their action on Tuesday saying that the Scrabulous game was a "gross copyright and trademark infringement". The companies asked Facebook to remove Scrabulous. Neither Facebook nor the Indian brothers who created the online word game have so far commented on the row. On Facebook, Scrabulous regularly racks up more than 500,000 users a day and many of these have leapt to the defence of the game. (BBC)
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