[dead]
NY Times issues DMCA takedowns of Wordle clones
11–20 of 60 posts
Re: NY Times issues DMCA takedowns of Wordle clones
#12That’s fair enough imo. They do own the rights.
Re: NY Times issues DMCA takedowns of Wordle clones
#13Archived: https://archive.is/D03zW
The relevant part seems to be the mention of "React Wordle" as well as:
> The Times owns U.S. Copyright Reg. No. PA0002342355 in Wordle as an electronic file and computer file for a videogame. The Times’s Wordle copyright includes the unique elements of its immensely popular game, such as the 5x6 grid, green tiles to indicate correct guesses, yellow tiles to indicate the correct letter but the wrong place within the word, and the keyboard directly beneath the grid.
Re: NY Times issues DMCA takedowns of Wordle clones
#14Gross. Reminder that NYT ripped off the 'connecting walls' of Only Connect, though their version—Connections—is low quality in comparison. PuzzGrid[1] does it better, for anyone who plays Connections.
Re: NY Times issues DMCA takedowns of Wordle clones
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
The only thing I can imagine here is that many of the games have "dle" or "le" suffixes and sometimes even describe themselves as "Wordle, but...". It seems more likely that it's NYT's lawyers hoping to bully the "competition".
NYT does have a trademark on Wordle, but that shouldn't be covered by the DMCA.
You are not allowed to use the DMCA for trademark disputes
Re: NY Times issues DMCA takedowns of Wordle clones
#16That’s fair enough imo. They do own the rights.
The game is mastermind with letters. Even mastermind probably has prior art. Also, hard to say that there is a right to stop clones given rules aren’t copyrightable.
Re: NY Times issues DMCA takedowns of Wordle clones
#17Can anyone speak to how/why they have this ability? Isn't Wordle effectively just a game UX pattern? How is that copyrightable?
IANAL. So long as you own a legitimate copyright, you can send a DMCA takedown about whatever you want. That doesn't mean it's 100% legally robust.
Sending a fraudulent DMCA notice can open the sender to fines, penalties, and legal costs and damages.
Re: NY Times issues DMCA takedowns of Wordle clones
#18That’s fair enough imo. They do own the rights.
The game is mastermind with letters. Even mastermind probably has prior art. Also, hard to say that there is a right to stop clones given rules aren’t copyrightable.
Yes, Mastermind is a variant of an old folk game called Bulls and Cows.
Re: NY Times issues DMCA takedowns of Wordle clones
#19I got the same. Did make a clone and localised it, and then forgot about it. Apparently, every cloned project was in the notice list. Deleted and forgot.
Treating it as a case study how to protect the rights. One might say that it is against freedom etc., but in my opinion this makes intellectual capital a value. E.g. I now believe it is worth to invest in innovations and so on. (It does not mean I will do it as I lack the will and resources.) When I was younger I didn't know how to protect my code and capitalise it, therefore this case resonates with me in such way.
Re: NY Times issues DMCA takedowns of Wordle clones
#20This is pathetic. The AI lawsuit sort of makes sense, but this just makes them seem like assholes. Oh well... I'm sure this will stop people from writing and hosting the code they want to.
And, I mean, it's really too bad it's archived... https://web.archive.org/web/20240306172335/https://github.co...