The legal battle over the Facebook game Scrabulous took a new turn in October after a court in New Delhi ruled that the Scrabble game itself is not protected by copyright.
Under the Delhi High Court ruling, the Agarwala brothers can continue to make the game but must change the name so that it does not in any way resemble Scrabble, intellectual property blog Spicy IP reported.
Earlier this year, toy giant Mattel, which owns the rights to Scrabble outside the US, took Rajat and Jayant Agarwala and their operating company RJ Software to court over Scrabulous, a popular game on the social networking site Facebook. Facebook has since blocked access to the game.
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