Hasbro Finally Drops Scrabulous Suit

Re:Hasbro Finally Drops Scrabulous Suit by shaunxcode on Monday December 15, 2008 @06:19PM (#398986)

I am blatantly not a lawyer but from my understanding you can not patent rules to a game. So the clever thing to do would be implementing a "word game engine" which allows users to upload their rules to it and share those rules, if they happen to be scrabble-esque..? Are you responsible for all user content in that situation? (serious question)

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Re:Hasbro Finally Drops Scrabulous Suit by snprbob86 on Monday December 15, 2008 @08:14PM (#399071)

It's sort of a big legal crazy gray area full of pitfalls and madness. I am far from a laywer, but it appears that if you intentionally turn a blind eye towards the user generated content UNTIL there is a complaint, ract with an immediate and complete takedown, then it seems OK. Maybe? Who knows?

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Re:Hasbro Finally Drops Scrabulous Suit by rms on Monday December 15, 2008 @10:03PM (#399137)

The makers of Scrabulous did exactly this.

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