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As you recall, Hasbro's decisions on how to deal with upstart Scrabulous backfired badly.
The company first threatened Scrabulous, then tried to do a deal with them. When that failed it (finally!) built its own Facebook Scrabble and then sued Scrabulous.
Rather than working to Hasbro's advantage, this backfired in a huge way -- pissing off plenty of people who swore never to use Hasbro's version of the game.
And then it was just a matter of days until the Scrabulous guys came out with a new game that was close to Scrabble, but different enough to likely avoid all copyright and trademark claims.Now, Hasbro only owns the rights to Scrabble in the US and Canada.
Mattel owns the rights elsewhere. Now, seeing that Mattel had the distinct advantage of seeing how much backlash there was against Hasbro for its actions, and how poorly Hasbro's own Facebook Scrabble was received, you might think that Mattel would try a different path.
Nope. Mattel has now forced Scrabulous offline outside of the US as well.
To be fair, the guys from Scrabulous overplay their reaction as well. It's not that shocking.
After all, this is how companies react these days. Rather than going with the faux outrage, why not just release WordScraper and get people to sign up for that, rather than any "licensed" version of Scrabble? Permalink | Comments | Email This Story .
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