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Can you copyright the game mechanics? I don’t see how eg words with friends could have ever existed if so.
by dilap 7y ago
Can you copyright the game mechanics? I don’t see how eg words with friends could have ever existed if so.
- lazerwalker 7y agoYou can't copyright a game mechanic, but you can copyright content. This is why Words With Friends has a different board layout, tile distribution, and tile point values from Scrabble. In that Set C&D, the infringing implementation is using art assets from the copyrighted Set game. Presumably, a version with different colors/shapes/etc (and a different name, so as to also avoid trademark infringement) would be totally fine.