Comments on: Scrabbling for Scrabulous

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:10:47 +0000

Scrabble was re-Invented in 1931. Did the copyright expired by now even on this claim?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:08:18 +0000

The world Scrabble was trademarked in 1948. So may be HAsbro can claim tradmark infringement because Scrabulous is related to Scrabble although it is fare fetched. But the game itself is just a crossworld puzzle. and even the idea of having amovible letters has many prior arts as fare as the 19th century at least! I will no be surprised if we can find some even older prior art for that. At most just change the game name to something else and continue to play!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:57:53 +0000

Scrable is just a crossword puzzle renamed scrabble. So how can Masbro/Matel claim copyright on this?
A lot of people have been using cut letters from news papers to be able to reuse their crossworld puzles well before they show up with this so called “Scrabble”.

Soldiers in world war I were playing this games in the tranches and sailors too during the 19th century! Where is the novelty in this game?

Let’s get ride of this bogus copyright claim once and for all!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:22:58 +0000

I don’t really see how they can claim ownership over a game where all you do is form words out of randomly selected letters.