A highly popular "Scrabble" clone already pulled from Facebook in the United States and Canada continued its tumble over the weekend as the online hangout extended its block of the game throughout most of the world. Facebook said Monday it was forced to disable "Scrabulous" after one of "Scrabble's" rights owners, Mattel, made a formal removal request and the developers of "Scrabulous" took no action themselves. The "Scrabulous" application remains available in India, where its developers live and where Mattel has filed a lawsuit claiming violations of intellectual property.
August 26th 2008