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Re:On Wordle, the NYT, and Antitrust by quxpar on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @06:47PM (#30171463)
People are missing the point - NYT paid to have THE wordle of the day - talking to other people about your specific battle with that day's word was 99 percent of the fun.

The act of whipping up a quick clone, while a a balm to the ego and a fun exercise for junior devs, does not recreate the social phenomenon.

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Re:On Wordle, the NYT, and Antitrust by dTal on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @07:04PM (#30171635)
I note that all future Wordle words are already known, so it would be trivial to make a "compatible" Wordle.
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Re:On Wordle, the NYT, and Antitrust by omnicognate on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @07:16PM (#30171739)
Trivial and, presumably, illegal.
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Re:On Wordle, the NYT, and Antitrust by zeroonetwothree on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @07:31PM (#30171881)
How could it possibly be illegal? There is no IP protection for Date % words.length
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Re:On Wordle, the NYT, and Antitrust by pseudalopex on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @07:53PM (#30172073)
Copyright. Wardle and his partner chose the words.
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Re:On Wordle, the NYT, and Antitrust by omnicognate on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @08:13PM (#30172212)
That's what I'd expect, copyright on the word list. However, IANAL and I would love to see some proper analysis on the legal status of clones, especially identical ones with the same word list.

You can have a perfect clone of wordle running in a couple of minutes, but I'm certain that would be copyright infringement.

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Re:On Wordle, the NYT, and Antitrust by heckerhut on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @09:43PM (#30172963)
There is a copyright on databases for exactly that reason.
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Re:On Wordle, the NYT, and Antitrust by notjustanymike on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @07:32PM (#30171891)
Exactly. They paid a million bucks for the free marketing and built in audience. They're buying the audience.
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