Jayant and Rajant Agarwalla are telling fans they’ve had a partial victory in their effort to defend Scrabulous, their highly popular digital version of Scrabble. The LA Times reports that the two sent an e-mail to fans claiming the Indian court where they being sued by Mattel ruled that the…

For the last few weeks, Facebook users outside the U.S. and Canada could do the superior dance between rounds of Scrabulous. Access to Scrabulous, the Scrabble knockoff developed by Indian brothers Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla, from those countries halted last month when the developers agreed to pull the program following…

How many points do you get for the word “COMEBACK”? Just two days after Scrabble maker Hasbro succeeded in using the DCMA to take Facebook’s Scrabulous app offline, creators Jayant Agarwalla and Rajat Agarwalla have rebirthed the app as “Wordscraper”. Not that this is Scrabble, mind you; oh no, this…

Scrabble, which replaced the popular Scrabulous application that was pulled from Facebook yesterday, has been attacked by a hacker and pulled from the site, newsfactor.com reports. *Electronic Arts*, which distributes Scrabble in a partnership with Hasbro, released a statement that read: “We’re working with our partners to resolve this issue…

Updated: Facebook says the decision to block Scrabulous for U.S. and Canadian users was made by the Scrabulous developers, not Facebook. The social net forwarded the DMCA notice to the Calcutta brothers, who took the app down on their end. Facebook spokesperson said that it isn’t taking sides in the…

Rob Glaser, the CEO of RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK), spoke last week at the Casual Connect conference in Seattle, just hours before Hasbro filed a lawsuit against the makers of Scrabulous, and assailed the rights issues associated with the game as the reason for this confusion in the market. The rights…

The latest turn in this saga doesn’t look so good for Scrabulous… Hasbro, the maker of Scrabble, is suing the creators of Scrabulous, the uber-popular Facebook app. In a statement, the company says the suit was filed against Rajat Agarwalla and Jayant Agarwalla in the Southern District of New York,…

RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK), which has previously professed its supposedly neutral position in the copyright controversy over the popular Facebook app Scrabulous, is now sneaking itself into the mix: it is quietly introducing a version of Scrabble on Facebook, called “Scrabble by Mattel”, through its subsidiary Gamehouse. The Mattel version is…

I had the exact same thought that Om had after I read the NYT piece last night AND when RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) PR sent out a note about the story, explaining their neutral position in the copyright controversy over the crazily popular Facebook app. Scrabulous is the new Tetris. The…

Hasbro and Mattel, the marketers of Scrabble, are accusing the creators of popular Facebook app Scrabulous of violating the copyright on the 70-year-old word game and are demanding that the social network remove the app from its site, the BBC reported. So far, both Facebook and Scrabulous not commenting. But…