No problem with the New York Times ripping off Only Connect though.
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New York Times is targeting Wordle clones with DMCA takedowns
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I doubt it. The existence of the words themselves is a fact, which is not copyrightable. Only their arrangement can be. Feist Publications, Inc., v. Rural Telephone Service Co., 499 U.S. 340 (1991) However, to be copyrightable, the arrangement has to be expressive, i.e., it must "possess the requisite originality because the author . . . chooses . . . in what order to place them." My strong suspicion is that Wordle's…
The selection is expressive. https://www.copyright.gov/comp3/chap300/ch300-copyrightable-... The Originality Requirement for Compilations A compilation may contain several distinct forms of authorship: • Selection authorship involved in choosing the material or data that will be included in the compilation; • Coordination authorship involved in classifying, categorizing, ordering, or grouping the material or data; an…
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but you can patent it.
No you can't.
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#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can't prove it, but I am quite sure NYT got a positive ROI on the acquisition of Wordle. They paid in the low single millions of USD, which isn't much for a brand as big as Wordle had become by then (2 million+ daily players) and it's been used to drive new digital subscriptions [1]. It's diminished somewhat since then but it has remarkable staying power. I can tell that from the Google Trends data [2] as well as t…
You can look at the comments section to see how popular it is, oftentimes there are a few hundred comments. That is higher than most NYT news stories (back when I used to use their website).
The Website has stats on the number who play each game (and their moves).
March 7 - Wordle 992 - 1,748,583 players
March 8 - Wordle 993 - 1,749,500 players
To get these go to:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/upshot/wordle-bot.h...
then "Compare and review recent scores" -> Next page -> on on the "Your Recent scores" select "view analysis" against the game number -> Next page
Doesn't seem to work with anonymous browser unfortunately.
Re: New York Times is targeting Wordle clones with DMCA takedowns
#87If you’re looking for a Wordle game they can’t take from you, Wordyl on Game Boy is one I’ve been enjoying :) https://bbbbbr.itch.io/gb-wordyl
Why wouldn't they allow keyboard input to type the words? Nobody has time to select each individual letter with the up/down arrows. I get it's an emulated game but there must be a way to hook keyboard input.
??? it's a gameboy game. gameboy had no keyboard
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#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can look at the comments section to see how popular it is, oftentimes there are a few hundred comments. That is higher than most NYT news stories (back when I used to use their website).
The Website has stats on the number who play each game (and their moves). March 7 - Wordle 992 - 1,748,583 players March 8 - Wordle 993 - 1,749,500 players To get these go to: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/upshot/wordle-bot.h... then "Compare and review recent scores" -> Next page -> on on the "Your Recent scores" select "view analysis" against the game number -> Next page Doesn't seem to work with anonymo…
That is ... amazingly consistent.
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#89DMCA itself should be illegal
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#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Website has stats on the number who play each game (and their moves). March 7 - Wordle 992 - 1,748,583 players March 8 - Wordle 993 - 1,749,500 players To get these go to: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/upshot/wordle-bot.h... then "Compare and review recent scores" -> Next page -> on on the "Your Recent scores" select "view analysis" against the game number -> Next page Doesn't seem to work with anonymo…
That is ... amazingly consistent.
I guess the question is how many people play around on the weekends. I could believe those still playing have a daily ritual when they play a match after logging into work.