Its a bugger for people that play with US/Canadian friends as the rights being split will mean another app that has the universality of Scrabulous is unlikely.
Still can't actually see the point of Facebook though...
No but when your siblings have them then you're sort of obliged...
I now use it to share personal photos with people, which seems like as good a purpose as any, and occasionally to indulge in memes. (Or the meme-like apps that seem to be the real point of Facebook.)
Unfortunately, that part matters not a whit in American law, where people have to protect their intellectual property or lose it. Hence why, say, Disney get bad-ass over all sorts of things involving their characters.
You lose trademarks, not copyright though. Surely Disney get bad-ass about things cos they're a dickish multimedia empire who know the power of getting rich by re-telling other people's stories.
From my armchair-laywer seat, it seems roughly the same thing. If Hasbro let a free knock-off of Scrabble exist without challenge, that means when someone charges for a knock-off the judge will say "Why didn't you go after these guys before that, huh? I deem you to have surrendered your rights! It's all in the public domain now, losers!"
That Disney are dickish is a given; they just happened to be the first example that came to mind (and then I fucked up by forgetting to actually state the example).
Anyway. In short, American companies have to protect their shit. Roughly speaking. If you want 100% authority you'd have to ask someone else on account of IANAL.
I am pretty sure the two Scrabulous bros were making tall dollars from ads. But yes, it's clear neither Hasbro nor Mattel would ever had made an app without it. Is there a version of Risk yet?
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Still can't actually see the point of Facebook though...
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Also being able to read people's Facebooks. It's sort of like the snake eating itself.
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And when you are rubbish at Scrabble?
Also being able to read people's Facebooks.
I don't think I've ever seen anything on anyone's Facebook that was worth reading...
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I now use it to share personal photos with people, which seems like as good a purpose as any, and occasionally to indulge in memes. (Or the meme-like apps that seem to be the real point of Facebook.)
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Unfortunately, that part matters not a whit in American law, where people have to protect their intellectual property or lose it. Hence why, say, Disney get bad-ass over all sorts of things involving their characters.
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That Disney are dickish is a given; they just happened to be the first example that came to mind (and then I fucked up by forgetting to actually state the example).
Anyway. In short, American companies have to protect their shit. Roughly speaking. If you want 100% authority you'd have to ask someone else on account of IANAL.
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