UK game industry trade body Tiga is calling on developers to offer their opinions on the issue of copyright and game cloning. The survey includes 15 questions on subjects such as whether your business has suffered from game cloning, IP ownership, licensing and copyright enforcement. The questionnaire also aims to discover the percentage of...
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Tiga surveying developers on game cloning
"Tiny Tower" Fans Have Gone To War With Zynga Over "Dream Heights" App Store …
Zynga’s tower-building sim Dream Heights has hit the app store after raising some ire from Tiny Tower devs NimbleBit last month, and it seems the battle’s not over. Dream Heights was met with loads of 1-star reviews from users alleging that the game is a blatant rip-off of Tiny Tower, and Zynga’s had little choice but to...
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Game makers face uphill battle proving copyright infringement in court
The idea of copying a successful game concept and profiting off of your own version is practically as old as the game industry itself—just look at the countless Pong clones released in the wake of the Atari original (which itself may have been copied from another source… but that’s another story). The idea of...
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Copyrights and Copycats
There are two stories of videogame “plagarism” going on lately. One is the story of Zynga copying Tiny Tower and making Dream Heights. Now, a few wise asses have laughed this off by saying that Tiny Tower is a ripoff of the 1994 Maxis classic Sim Tower. But let’s be clear here: There’s a...
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Don’t Tread on Spry Fox!
My law clerk, Andrew Berrier, sent me an email last week asking what one could do if a client came in with a complaint similar to Nimblebit’s outrage at the cloning of its Tiny Tower by Zynga. As General Counsel for indie developer Spry Fox, I had some very definite ideas of how...
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Creator of ‘Triple Town’ Focuses Legal Lasers on ‘Yeti Town’
They say that bad luck comes in threes, and that definitely seems to be the trend in last week’s news cycle. First Zynga ripped off Tiny Tower , then Glu fired up their copy machines, and then some similar although unrelated drama hit the land of Triple Town . Gamasutra is all over this...
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Spry Fox suing 6waves Lolapps over copyright infringement
One week after indie developer NimbleBit ‘congratulated’ publishing giant Zynga on ‘copying’ 2011 Apple Game of the Year Tiny Tower, another – more formal complaint – has arisen, this time from Triple Town developer Spry Fox. Seattle-based Spry Fox has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against publisher 6waves Lolapps, for copying Triple Town in...
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Spry Fox sues 6waves Lolapps for copying Triple Town game
The issue of copycat games is rearing its head in mobile games, just as it had with social games on Facebook. Spry Fox, a small game developer in Seattle, announced today in a blog post that it has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against 6waves Lolapps, a major social and mobile game publisher, for...
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Lolapps (sort of) denies cloning Triple Town
The backlash against Zynga for its (pretty blatant) plagiarism of Tiny Tower may have been one of this week’s big stories, but it certainly isn’t the only recent case of game companies ripping each other off. Late last year, 6waves Lolapps was accused of doing the exact same thing, and now the company’s finally...
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