Scrabulous Highlights the failure of American Copyright Law

Many facebook users, including this reporter, were dismayed yesterday when they discovered Scrabulous missing as a facebook app. The makers of scrabulous, two brothers from India, are facing a lawsuit from the current manufacturers of the Scrabble® game, Hasbro.

Here’s a bit of history on the game Scrabble® (originally known as Lexico) and thoughts on American copyright law from Australia’s Inquisitr, and here are a few “cross words” on the situation from the Washington Post.