Follow up to Popular face book Scrabble game which was already pulled from Facebook in the United States and Canada is still in tumble over the weekend it is also being done over the weekend in other local versions of Facebookas the online hangout extended its block of the game throughout most of the world.
According to facebook they were forced to disable Scrabulous after one of Scrabble’s rights owners, Mattel Inc., made a formal removal request and the developers of Scrabulous took no action themselves.However the Scrabulous application is still available in India, where its developers live and where Mattel has filed a lawsuit claiming violations of intellectual property. Scrabble board game has been yanked by Facebook in all other countries except India in response to a copyright violation from Mattel But since its Mattel which has rights to the international rights to Scrabble, the game was able to survive overseas.
In deciding to block Scrabulous on Friday, Facebook risked antagonizing a community of software developers it has been trying to nurture and promote. But had it done nothing, it could have faced liability for copyright and trademark infringement.
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