> You can't copyright the way scrabble is played any more than you can copyright the game of "football" under the laws governing "the NFL rulebook" (an actual d

> You can't copyright the way scrabble is played any more than you can copyright the game of "football" under the laws governing "the NFL rulebook" (an actual document). As companies other than EA have discovered, you can use the non-copyrighted rules to the game, but you can't use the NFL team names and logos in your version. Scrabulous picked a name that was a trademark problem and copied the board exactly to add a copyright problem to the mix.