IanLexulous
December 16th 2009 01:40
Lexulous (formerly Scrabulous), is an online word game based on the commercial board game Scrabble. It is run by an Indian company of the same name on the dedicated website at www.lexulous.com, and is also available within the social networking site Facebook.
The Scrabulous web site was launched in 2005, and the game was added to Facebook as an application in 2007, quickly becoming the most popular game on Facebook. In 2008 the game was removed from Facebook, first for North American users and later worldwide, because of copyright infringement lawsuits.
This is a result of the ruling by Delhi High Court that Calcutta-based Rajat Agarwalla, 27, and Jayant Agarwalla, 22, retained the right to post their word game online, but were not allowed to use Scrabulous, Scrabble or any other “similar sounding” name.
On September 27, 2008 a site was launched at www.lexulous.com, with access to the old database of scrabulous.com users. It has a Live version and Practice Mode, and an option for play by email.
On December 20, 2008 Hasbro withdrew their lawsuit against RJ Softwares. And on 1 January 2009, Lexulous was reactivated on Facebook starting with 0 monthly active users. As of March 23, the application has about 585,000 monthly active users. EA's version has about 586,000 while RealNetwork's version has 357,000 users.
*This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia page for Lexulous.
The Scrabulous web site was launched in 2005, and the game was added to Facebook as an application in 2007, quickly becoming the most popular game on Facebook. In 2008 the game was removed from Facebook, first for North American users and later worldwide, because of copyright infringement lawsuits.
This is a result of the ruling by Delhi High Court that Calcutta-based Rajat Agarwalla, 27, and Jayant Agarwalla, 22, retained the right to post their word game online, but were not allowed to use Scrabulous, Scrabble or any other “similar sounding” name.
On September 27, 2008 a site was launched at www.lexulous.com, with access to the old database of scrabulous.com users. It has a Live version and Practice Mode, and an option for play by email.
On December 20, 2008 Hasbro withdrew their lawsuit against RJ Softwares. And on 1 January 2009, Lexulous was reactivated on Facebook starting with 0 monthly active users. As of March 23, the application has about 585,000 monthly active users. EA's version has about 586,000 while RealNetwork's version has 357,000 users.
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